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11. Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World

© 2020 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

© 2020 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

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
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800
This chapter is in the book Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804776332-017

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
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