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The never-before-told story of how Spain helped initiate the modern scientific era by collecting empirical data in order to commodify and control the natural resources of its American empire.

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Experiencing Nature is a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the history of science and technology during the early period of transatlantic imperial expansion. * Technology and Culture *

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Searching the Land for Commodities
  • 2. A Chamber of Knowledge: The Casa de la Contratación and Its Empirical Methods
  • 3. Communities of Experts: Artisans and Innovation in the New World
  • 4. Circuits of Information: Reports from the New World
  • 5. Books of Nature: Scholars, Natural History, and the New World
  • Conclusions: The Politics of Knowledge
  • Appendix 1. Pilots and Cosmographers at the Casa de la Contratación
  • Appendix 2. Instruments
  • Appendix 3. Spanish Scientific Books
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2006
      ISBN13: 9780292725942, 978-0292725942
      ISBN10: 0292725949

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The never-before-told story of how Spain helped initiate the modern scientific era by collecting empirical data in order to commodify and control the natural resources of its American empire.

      Trade Review
      Experiencing Nature is a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the history of science and technology during the early period of transatlantic imperial expansion. * Technology and Culture *

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • 1. Searching the Land for Commodities
      • 2. A Chamber of Knowledge: The Casa de la Contratación and Its Empirical Methods
      • 3. Communities of Experts: Artisans and Innovation in the New World
      • 4. Circuits of Information: Reports from the New World
      • 5. Books of Nature: Scholars, Natural History, and the New World
      • Conclusions: The Politics of Knowledge
      • Appendix 1. Pilots and Cosmographers at the Casa de la Contratación
      • Appendix 2. Instruments
      • Appendix 3. Spanish Scientific Books
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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