Experiencing Nature : : The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution / / Antonio Barrera-Osorio.
As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data, drew maps, and sent home specimens of America's vast resources of animals, plants, and minerals. Th...
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Barrera-Osorio, Antonio, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Experiencing Nature : The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution / Antonio Barrera-Osorio. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2006 1 online resource (223 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Searching the Land for Commodities -- Two A Chamber of Knowledge: The Casa de la contratación and its empirical methods -- Three Communities of Experts: artisans and innovation in the new world -- Four Circuits of Information: reports from the new world -- Five Books of Nature: scholars, natural history, and the new world -- Conclusions: The politics of knowledge -- Appendix 1 Pilots and Cosmographers at the Casa de la Contratación -- Appendix 2 Instruments -- Appendix 3 Spanish Scientific Books -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data, drew maps, and sent home specimens of America's vast resources of animals, plants, and minerals. This amassing of empirical knowledge about Spain's American possessions had two far-reaching effects. It overturned the medieval understanding of nature derived from Classical texts and helped initiate the modern scientific revolution. And it allowed Spain to commodify and control the natural resources upon which it built its American empire. In this book, Antonio Barrera-Osorio investigates how Spain's need for accurate information about its American colonies gave rise to empirical scientific practices and their institutionalization, which, he asserts, was Spain's chief contribution to the early scientific revolution. He also conclusively links empiricism to empire-building as he focuses on five areas of Spanish activity in America: the search for commodities in, and the ecological transformation of, the New World; the institutionalization of navigational and information-gathering practices at the Spanish Casa de la Contratación (House of Trade); the development of instruments and technologies for exploiting the natural resources of the Americas; the use of reports and questionnaires for gathering information; and the writing of natural histories about the Americas. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Science Latin America History To 1830. Science Spain History To 1830. Science United States History To 1830. SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/709812 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292795945 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292795945/original |
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