TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asúa,Miguel de
AU  - French,Roger
TI  - A New World of Animals: Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America
SN  - 9781351962148
AV  - QL223 .A883 2016 
U1  - 591.98 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Animals-Latin America-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Unexpected Menagerie of the New World -- Columbus: First Contact with American Animals -- The Letters of the Physicians -- Vespucci -- Pinzón and a Curious Animal -- Cabral and the 'Land of the Parrots' -- Fernández de Enciso and Roger Barlow: Geography, Animals and Empire -- The Animals of Patagonia -- 2 Soldiers and Amerindians -- Hernán Cortés and the Menagerie of Tenochtitlán -- The Mercenary and the Hero: Two Views on the Animals of the River Plate and Paraguay -- Pedro Cieza de León: the Animals of a Soldier-Historian -- The Brazilian Zoo of a German Among the Tupi -- Vargas Machuca: a Handbook for the Conquistador -- Animals in an Aztec Encyclopaedia. Bernardino de Sahagún and his General History of the Things of New Spain -- The Royal Commentaries of the Inca Garcilaso -- 3 The New Histories of the New World -- The Letters of an Italian Humanist. Peter Martyr and his Decades -- Francisco Fernández de Oviedo, the Pliny of the New World -- A Chronicle of the Conquest. López de Gómara's General History of the Indies -- Aristotle and the New World. José de Acosta and his Natural and Moral History of the Indies -- The Relaciones of the Indies and Herrera's General History of the Deeds of the Castilians -- The Natural Histories of the New World -- 4 Joyful and Profitable News from the New World. Animals, Medicine and Commerce -- Francisco Hernández and his History of the Animals of New Spain -- Animal Drugs: Monardes's Medicinal History and Ximénez's Four Books -- Exotic Animals. Knowledge and Interests. Clusius and his Exotica -- Georg Markgraf and Willem Piso. The Dutch West India Company and the Historia naturalis Brasiliae; The Literature about the New World in Reformed Europe and the Expansion of the Northern Powers -- Useful and Strategic Knowledge on Animals of the New World -- 5 Learned Missionaries and Jesuit Scholars -- Fernão Cardim and his Treatise on the Land and the Climate of Brazil -- The Franciscan Claude d'Abbeville and the History of the mission of Capuchin Fathers to the Island of Maranhão -- Catholic and Calvinist Views on the Animals of French Brazil -- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and his Historia naturae maxime peregrinae -- Athanasius Kircher: Noah's Ark, a Wondrous Museum and Animal Magnetism -- Gaspar Schott and his Physica curiosa -- 6 New World Animals and Shifting Conceptions of Natural History -- Natural Philosophy and Philological Quibbles. Cardano vs Julius Caesar Scaliger -- Brazilian Birds and the Classics. Belon and L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux -- Animals in a Jungle of Words. Gesner's Historia animalium -- New World Animals Play a Role in the Theatre of Nature. Aldrovandi and his Historia animalium -- The 'Who's Who' of Seventeenth-Century Natural History. John Jonston and his Encyclopaedia on Animals -- New World Animals and the 'Scientific Revolution' -- The Loss of an Enchanted View -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Many Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. This book tells the story of the European encounter with this unexpected menagerie, with a focus on the Caribbean and South America. Using the original texts and their accompanying illustrations, it shows that initial wonder at these new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach, assessing their economic and medical potential
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