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Experiencing Nature : The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292795945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Experiencing NatureDDC classification:
  • 509.8
LOC classification:
  • Q127
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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