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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.As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable st

Title Secret Science : Spanish Cosmography and the New World / María M. Portuondo.
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Creation Date [2009]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction. Spanish Science and the New World -- ONE. Renaissance Cosmography in the Era of Discovery -- TWO. Cosmographical Styles at the Casa, Consejo, and Corte -- THREE. Cosmography Codified -- FOUR. The Cosmographer-Chronicler of the Council of the Indies -- FIVE. The Cosmographer at Work -- SIX. Constructing a Cosmographical Epistemology -- SEVEN. Cosmography Dissolves -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Extent 1 online resource (358 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2009
National Library system number 997010717924305171
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