Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 (Record no. 145236)
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| fixed length control field | 03494nam a22003614a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 509.03 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Stanford, Calif. : |
| Name of publisher | Stanford University Press, |
| Year of publication | c2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | vi, 427 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 / Mar�ia M. Portuondo -- Science during the Portuguese maritime discoveries : a telling case of interaction between experimenters and theoreticians / On�esimo 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 Sig�uenza y G�ongora 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 M�exico, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark -- The Indies of knowledge, or the imaginary geography of the discoveries of gold in Brazil / J�unia 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 Fern�andez de Quir�os, 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 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Science |
| Topical Term | Science |
| Topical Term | Science |
| Topical Term | Science |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bleichmar, Daniela, |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10428918 |
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