03494nam a22003614a 4500 ebr10428918 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080919s2009 caua sb 001 0 eng c 2008041298 9780804753586 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)697631964 e-sp--- e-po--- cl----- Q127.L38 S36 2009eb 509.03 22 Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 [electronic resource] / edited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [et al.]. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009. vi, 427 p. : ill. 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 / 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Science Latin America History. Science Spain Colonies History. Science Portugal Colonies History. Science Latin America Historiography. Latin America History To 1830. Electronic books. local Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973- ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10428918 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 232628 232628