Missionary scientists : Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 /
The first scientists of the New World.
Основен автор: | Prieto, Andres I. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
℗♭2011.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=360706 |
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Print version::
Missionary scientists. |
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.