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Missionary scientists : Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 /

The first scientists of the New World.

Основен автор: Prieto, Andres I.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, ℗♭2011.
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Съдържание:
  • Introduction : science and the Jesuit ways of proceeding
  • Jesuit struggles in Peru
  • Confessing the power to heal
  • Christianizing demonic knowledge
  • Science and expansion
  • Astronomy between Chiloe, Lima and Rome
  • The two faces of Acosta's Historia natural y moral
  • The irreducible difference of America
  • Local nature, local histories
  • Epilogue : the Jesuit and the armchair philosopher.