Secret science : Spanish cosmography and the new world / María M. Portuondo.

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Portuondo, María M [author.]

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226675374
0226675378
9780226675343
0226675343
1282239929
9781282239920
9786612239922
6612239921

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secret science.DDC classification:

912.09 22

LOC classification:

QB29 .P67 2009eb

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Contents:

List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Translations; Introduction. Spanish Science and the New World; Chapter 1. Renaissance Cosmography in the Era of Discovery; Chapter 2. Cosmographical Styles at the Casa, Consejo and Corte; Chapter 3. Cosmography Codified; Chapter 4. The Cosmographer-Chronicler of the Council of Indies; Chapter 5. The Cosmographer at Work; Chapter 6. Constructing a Cosmographical Epistemology; Chapter 7. Cosmography Dissolves; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index.

The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known.