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001 2008041298
003 DLC
005 20090902092720.0
008 080919s2009 caua b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780804753586 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aQ127.L38$bS36 2009
082 00 $a509.03$222
245 00 $aScience in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 /$cedited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [et al.].
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$cc2009.
300 $avi, 427 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]- 417) and index.
505 0 $aReassessing 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 / María M. Portuondo -- Science during the Portuguese maritime discoveries : a telling case of interaction between experimenters and theoreticians / Onésimo 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 Sigüenza y Góngora 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 México, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark -- The Indies of knowledge, or the imaginary geography of the discoveries of gold in Brazil / Júnia 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 Fernández de Quirós, 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.
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.
700 1 $aBleichmar, Daniela,$d1973-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008041298.html