Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 / edited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [et al.].
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 427 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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 / Maria M. Portuondo
- Science during the Portuguese maritime discoveries : a telling case of interaction between experimenters and theoreticians / Onesimo 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 Siguenza y Gongora 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 Mexico, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark
- The Indies of knowledge, or the imaginary geography of the discoveries of gold in Brazil / Junia 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 Fernandez de Quiros, 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.