Science in the Spanish and Portuguese

This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the book consists of fifteen original essays, as well as an introduction and an afterword by renowned scholars in the field. The topics discussed include navigation, exploration, cartography, natural sciences, technology, and medicine. This volume is aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, and is designed to be useful for teaching. It will be a major resource for anyone interested in colonial Latin America.

Daniela Bleichmar is Assistant Professor of Art History and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California. Paula De Vos is Associate Professor of Latin American History at San Diego State University. Kristin Huffine is Assistant Professor of Latin American history at Northern Illinois University.Kevin Sheehan is currently writing his doctoral dissertation in history at the University of California, Berkeley.

Illustrations	p. ix
Tables	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. I
Reassessing the Role of Iberia in Early Modern Science
Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America: New Interpretations, New Approaches	p. 9
Portuguese Imperial Science, 1450-1800: A Historiographical Review	p. 35
New Worlds, New Sciences
Cosmography at the Casa, Consejo, and Corte During the Century of Discovery	p. 57
Science During the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries: A Telling Case of Interaction Between Experimenters and Theoreticians	p. 78
Baroque Natures: Juan E. Nieremberg, American Wonders, and Preterimperial Natural History	p. 93
Knowledge Production: Local Contexts, Global Empires
Cosmopolitanism and Scientific Reason in New Spain: Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and the Dispute over the 1680 Comet	p. 115
Medical Mestizaje and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730	p. 132
"Read All About It": Science, Translation, Adaptation, and Confrontation in the Gazeta de Literatura de Mexico, 1788-1795	p. 147
The Indies of Knowledge, or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil	p. 178
Space Production and Spanish Imperial Geopolitics	p. 198
Commerce, Curiosities, and the Circulation of Knowledge
Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World	p. 219
Voyaging in the Spanish Baroque: Science and Patronage in the Pacific Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1605-1606	p. 233
Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire	p. 247
The Rare, the Singular, and the Extraordinary: Natural History and the Collection of Curiosities in the Spanish Empire	p. 271
A Visible and Useful Empire: Visual Culture and Colonial Natural History in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World	p. 290
Afterword
Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook	p. 311
Notes	p. 325
Index	p. 419
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