03814nam 2200769 a 450 991045417910332120200520144314.01-281-96638-X97866119663860-226-73356-410.7208/9780226733562(CKB)1000000000578354(EBL)432289(OCoLC)309877290(SSID)ssj0000200013(PQKBManifestationID)11170797(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200013(PQKBWorkID)10196940(PQKB)10095827(SSID)ssj0000777575(PQKBManifestationID)12337758(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777575(PQKBWorkID)10757634(PQKB)11594396(MiAaPQ)EBC432289(DE-B1597)524755(OCoLC)1063816203(DE-B1597)9780226733562(Au-PeEL)EBL432289(CaPaEBR)ebr10265940(CaONFJC)MIL196638(EXLCZ)99100000000057835420080423d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMeasuring the new world[electronic resource] enlightenment science and South America /Neil SafierChicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (406 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-73362-9 0-226-73355-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-371) and index.The ruined pyramids of Yaruquí -- An enlightened Amazon, with fables and a fold-out map -- Armchair explorers -- Correcting Quito -- A nation defamed and defended -- Incas in the king's garden -- The golden monkey and the monkey-worm.Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a "sacred fire" passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America. By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author. Scientific expeditionsEcuadorQuitoHistory18th centuryScienceEuropeHistory18th centuryCommunication in scienceEuropeHistory18th centuryEcuadorDiscovery and explorationFrenchAmazon River RegionDiscovery and explorationSouth AmericaHistorical geographyElectronic books.Scientific expeditionsHistoryScienceHistoryCommunication in scienceHistory509/.033NK 4760rvkSafier Neil990073MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454179103321Measuring the new world2264597UNINA