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Titolo |
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 / / edited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [et al.] |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2009 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (454 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science - Latin America - History |
Science - Spain - Colonies - History |
Science - Portugal - Colonies - History |
Science - Latin America - Historiography |
Latin America History To 1830 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]- 417) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Reassessing the role of Iberia in early modern science. Science, medicine, and technology in colonial Spanish America : new interpretations, new approaches / David Goodman -- Portuguese imperial science, 1450-1800 : a historiographical review / Palmira Fontes da Costa and Henrique Leitao. New worlds, new sciences. Cosmography at the casa, consejo, and corte during the century of discovery / María M. Portuondo -- Science during the Portuguese maritime discoveries : a telling case of interaction between experimenters and theoreticians / Onésimo T. Almeida -- Baroque natures : Juan E. Nieremberg, American wonders, and preterimperial natural history / Juan Pimentel. Knowledge production : local contexts, global empires. Cosmopolitanism and scientific reason in New Spain : Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the dispute over the 1680 comet / Anna More -- Medical mestizaje and the politics of pregnancy in colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730 / Martha Few -- "Read all about it" : science, translation, adaptation, and confrontation in the Gazeta de literatura de México, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark -- The Indies of knowledge, or the imaginary geography of the discoveries of gold in Brazil / Júnia Ferreira Furtado -- Space production and Spanish imperial |
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geopolitics / Nuria Valverde and Antonio Lafuente. Commerce, curiosities, and the circulation of knowledge. Knowledge and empiricism in the sixteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world / Antonio Barrera-Osorio -- Voyaging in the Spanish baroque : science and patronage in the Pacific voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 1605-1606 / Kevin Sheehan -- Acquisition and circulation of medical knowledge within the early modern Portuguese colonial empire / Timothy Walker -- The rare, the singular, and the extraordinary : natural history and the collection of curiosities in the Spanish empire / Paula De Vos -- A visible and useful empire : visual culture and colonial natural history in the eighteenth-century Spanish world / Daniela Bleichmar. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume is a collection of essays that examines the practices and aims of science in the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires (ca. 1500-1800), situating them in their historical, cultural, social, and political context. |
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