Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800. Daniela Bleichmar, Paula De Vos, Kristin Huffine, Kevin Sheehan

Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800



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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Page: 454
ISBN: 080475358X, 9780804753586

"[T]he quality of the contributions to this volume is generally high. To be sure, the articles also show that, in terms of the topics and approaches taken by scholars between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, what the Spanish and Portuguese were up to was not all that different from what was underway elsewhere in Europe. Yet the inclusion of Spain and Portugal in the historiographic conversation, as this volume amply demonstrates, offers considerable enrichment to our understanding of the pursuit of science in this transitional era."—Thomas Broman, Luso-Brazilian Review

"This collection of fifteen 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 . . . This will undoubtedly become an important book."—Stefan Halikowski Smith, British Journal of the History of Science

"This very solid and well-edited collection . . . clearly demonstrates that early modern science was alive and well south of the Pyrenees and that Iberians were pioneers in many fields of scientific inquiry. The collection would work well in a graduate seminar, providing numerous dynamic starting points for any number of future projects based on the subjects it contains."—Timothy J. Coates, Journal of World History

"Individually, the essays have a strong archival base, clear focus and fascinating detail. Following the guide of the last essay, this volume includes many illustrations—a visual reminder of scientific advances. As a group, they demonstrate that science h

"Outstanding contributions include that on Nieremberg by Juan Pimentel, who shows the compatibility of his subject's religious and scientific thinking; Paula De Vos's entertaining account of an eighteenth-century bishop's cabinet of curiosities; and Anna 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 Professo

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