| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) |
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Spanish language |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Translations; Introduction. Spanish Science and the New World; Chapter 1. Renaissance Cosmography in the Era of Discovery; Chapter 2. Cosmographical Styles at the Casa, Consejo and Corte; Chapter 3. Cosmography Codified; Chapter 4. The Cosmographer-Chronicler of the Council of Indies; Chapter 5. The Cosmographer at Work; Chapter 6. Constructing a Cosmographical Epistemology; Chapter 7. Cosmography Dissolves; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cosmography -- History.
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Cosmography. |
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History. |
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Science -- Historiography.
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Science -- Historiography. |
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America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
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America. |
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Discoveries in geography. |
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Spain -- History.
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Spain. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Portuondo, María M. Secret science. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226675343 0226675343 (DLC) 2008034282 (OCoLC)243845278 |
| ISBN |
9780226675374 (electronic book) |
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0226675378 (electronic book) |
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9780226675343 (cloth) |
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0226675343 (cloth) |
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1282239929 |
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9781282239920 |
| Standard No. |
9786612239922 |
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