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Measuring the new world : enlightenment science and South America
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Measuring the new world : enlightenment science and South America / Neil Safier.
ISBN
9780226733555 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226733556 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xviii, 387 p., 20 p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-371) and index.
Contents
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.
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