Experiencing nature the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution /
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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
2006.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. |
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Taula de continguts:
- Searching the land for commodities
- A chamber of knowledge: the Casa de la Contratación and its empirical methods
- Communities of experts: artisans and innovation in the New World
- Circuits of information: reports from the New World
- 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.