Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Preface xix
7. Acknowledgments xxiii
8. Introduction 1
9. PART I REASSESSING THE ROLE OF IBERIA IN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE
10. 1. Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America 9
11. 2. Portuguese Imperial Science, 1450–1800 35
12. PART II: NEW WORLDS, NEW SCIENCES
13. 3. Cosmography at the Casa, Consejo, and Corte During the Century of Discovery 57
14. 4. Science During the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries 78
15. 5. Baroque Natures 93
16. PART III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: LOCAL CONTEXTS, GLOBAL EMPIRES
17. 6. Cosmopolitanism and Scientific Reason in New Spain 115
18. 7. Medical Mestizaje and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660–1730 132
19. 8. “Read All About It” 147
20. 9. The Indies of Knowledge, or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil 178
21. 10. Space Production and Spanish Imperial Geopolitics 198
22. PART IV COMMERCE, CURIOSITIES, AND THE CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE
23. 11. Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World 219
24. 12. Voyaging in the Spanish Baroque 233
25. 13. Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire 247
26. 14. The Rare, the Singular, and the Extraordinary: 271
27. 15. A Visible and Useful Empire 290
28. Afterword 311
29. Notes 325
30. Index 419