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Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800
Title
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 [electronic resource] / edited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [et al.].
ISBN
9780804753586 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
vi, 427 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Local Notes
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 11, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]- 417) and index.
Contents
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 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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