TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barrera-Osorio,Antonio
TI  - Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution
SN  - 9780292795945
AV  - Q127 
U1  - 509.8 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Science-Latin America-History-To 1830
KW  - Science-Spain-History-To 1830
KW  - Science-United States-History-To 1830
KW  - Latin America-History-To 1830
KW  - Spain-History
KW  - Spain-Colonies-America
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Searching the Land for Commodities -- TWO. A Chamber of Knowledge: The Casa de la Contratación and Its Empirical Methods -- THREE. Communities of Experts: Artisans and Innovation in the New World -- FOUR. Circuits of Information: Reports from the New World -- FIVE. Books of Nature: Scholars, Natural History, and the New World -- Conclusions: The Politics of Knowledge -- Appendix 1. Pilots and Cosmographers at the Casa de la Contratación -- Appendix 2. Instruments -- Appendix 3. Spanish Scientific Books -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Searching the Land for Commodities -- 2. A Chamber of Knowledge -- 3. Communities of Experts -- 4. Circuits of Information -- 5. Books of Nature -- Conclusions: The Politics of Knowledge -- Bibliography -- Index
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