Exploration, Religion and Empire in the Sixteenth-century Ibero-Atlantic World : : A New Perspective on the History of Modern Science / / Mauricio Nieto Olarte.
The Iberian conquest of the Atlantic at the beginning of the sixteenth century had a notable impact on the formation of the new world order in which Christian Europe claimed control over most a considerable part of the planet. This was possible thanks to the confluence of different and inseparable f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic
- 2. The imperial bureaucracy and the appropriation of the New World
- 3. The piloto mayor: cosmography and the art of navigation
- 4. Machines of the empire
- 5. The Master Map (Padrón Real) and the cartography of the New World
- 6. The creatures of God never seen before: natural history
- 7. The New World, global science, and Eurocentrism
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index