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Missionary scientists Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810
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Missionary scientists [electronic resource] : Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 / Andres I. Prieto.
ISBN
9780826517463
0826517447
9780826517449 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
Published
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 287 p. :) ill., maps ;
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 History Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index.
Contents
Introduction : science and the Jesuit ways of proceeding
Jesuit struggles in Peru
Confessing the power to heal
Christianizing demonic knowledge
Science and expansion
Astronomy between Chiloe, Lima and Rome
The two faces of Acosta's Historia natural y moral
The irreducible difference of America
Local nature, local knowledge
Epilogue : the Jesuit and the armchair philosopher.
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