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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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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