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245 0 0 _aScience in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [et al.].
260 _aStanford, Calif. :
_bStanford University Press,
_cc2009.
300 _avi, 427 p. :
_bill.
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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aBleichmar, Daniela,
_d1973-
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10428918
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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