Secret science: Spanish cosmography and the new world
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Main Author: Portuondo, María M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2009
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index
The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known
List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Translations; Introduction. Spanish Science and the New World; Chapter 1. Renaissance Cosmography in the Era of Discovery; Chapter 2. Cosmographical Styles at the Casa, Consejo and Corte; Chapter 3. Cosmography Codified; Chapter 4. The Cosmographer-Chronicler of the Council of Indies; Chapter 5. The Cosmographer at Work; Chapter 6. Constructing a Cosmographical Epistemology; Chapter 7. Cosmography Dissolves; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 335 pages, [8] pages of plates)
ISBN:0226675378
9780226675374

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