Nature, empire, and nation explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world
This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the...
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Stanford (California) :
Stanford University Press
2006
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chivalric epistemology and patriotic narratives : Iberian colonial science
- The colonial Iberian roots of the scientific revolution
- From baroque to modern colonial science
- New world, new stars : patriotic astrology and the invention of Ameridian and Creole bodies in colonial Spanish America, 1600-1650
- Eighteenth-century Spanish political economy : epistemology and decline
- How derivative was Humboldt? : microcosmic narratives in early modern Spanish America and the (other) origins of Humboldt's ecological sensibilities
- Landscapes and identities : Mexico 1850-1900
