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050 00 $aQ127.L38$bS36 2009
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245 00 $aScience in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 /$cedited by Daniela Bleichmar [and others].
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axxii, 427 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-417) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tScience, medicine, and technology in colonial Spanish America : new interpretations, new approaches /$rDavid Goodman -- $g2.$tPortuguese imperial science, 1450-1800 : a historiographical review /$rPalmira Fontes de Costa and Henrique Leitao -- $g3.$tCosmography at the casa, consejo, and corte during the century of discovery /$rMaria M. Portuondo -- $g4.$tScience during the Portuguese maritime discoveries : a telling case of interaction between experimenters and theoreticians /$rOnesimo T. Almeida -- $g5.$tBaroque natures : Juan E. Nieremberg, American wonders, and preterimperial natural history /$rJuan Pimintel -- $g6.$tCosmopolitanism and scientific reason in New Spain : Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and the dispute over the 1680 comet /$rAnna More -- $g7.$tMedical mestizaje and the politics of pregnancy in colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730 /$rMartha Few -- $g8.$t"Read all about it" : science, translation, adaptation, and confrontation in the Gazeta de Literatura de Mexico, 1788-1795 /$rFiona Clark -- $g9.$tThe Indies of knowledge, or the imaginary geography of the discoveries of gold in Brazil /$rJunia Ferreira Furtado -- $g10.$tSpace production and Spanish imperial geopolitics /$rNuria Valverde and Antonio Lafuente -- $g11.$tKnowledge and empiricism in the sixteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world /$rAntonio Barrera-Osorio -- $g12.$tVoyaging in the Spanish Baroque : science and patronage in the Pacific voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1605-1606 /$rKevin Sheehan -- $g13.$tAcquisition and circulation of medical knowledge within the early modern Portuguese colonial empire /$rTimothy Walker -- $g14.$tThe rare, the singular, and the extraordinary : natural history and the collection of curiosities in the Spanish empire /$rPaula De Vos -- $g15.$tA visible and useful empire : visual culture and colonial natural history in the eighteenth-century Spanish world /$rDaniela Bleichmar -- $tAfterword /$rNoble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook.
520 1 $a"This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the book consists of fifteen original essays, as well as an Introduction and an Afterword by renowned scholars in the field. The topics discussed include navigation, exploration, cartography, natural sciences, technology, and medicine. This volume is aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, and is presented in an open, accessible style. It will be a major resource for anyone interested in colonial Latin America."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aScience$zLatin America$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$zSpain$xColonies$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$zPortugal$xColonies$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$zLatin America$xHistoriography.
651 0 $aLatin America$xHistory$yTo 1830.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074898
700 1 $aBleichmar, Daniela,$d1973-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004114180
852 00 $bglx$hQ127.L38$iS36 2009