02080nam 2200481Ia 450 99624815720331620160416000000.00-262-23264-22027/heb31248(CKB)3710000000955338(dli)HEB31248(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000457(EXLCZ)99371000000095533820160417d2008 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe tropics of empire why Columbus sailed south to the Indies /Nicolás Wey GómezCambridge, Mass. MIT Pressc20081 online resource (xxiv, 592 p. ) ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;Transformations : studies in the history of science and technologyIncludes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index.Introduction : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies -- Machina mundi : the moral authority of place in the early transatlantic encounter -- Columbus and the open geography of the ancients -- The meaning of India in pre-Columbian Europe -- From place to colonialism in the Aristotelian tradition -- En la parte del sol : Iberia's invention of the Afro-Indian tropics, 1434-1494 -- Between Cathay and a hot place : reorienting the Asia-America debate -- The tropics of empire in Columbus's Diario.Transformations (M.I.T. Press)Geography, MedievalDiscoveries in geographyNavigationHistoryAmericaDiscovery and explorationSpanishTropicsGeographyEuropeIntellectual life15th centuryGeography, Medieval.Discoveries in geography.NavigationHistory.980/.013092Wey Gómez Nicolás1015556MiUMiUBOOK996248157203316The tropics of empire2371951UNISA