TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bleichmar,Daniela
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800
AV  - Q127.L38 S36 2009eb
U1  - 509.03 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - Spain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Historiography
KW  - To 1830
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]- 417) and index; Reassessing 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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