- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America
- Chapter Two Portuguese Imperial Science, 1450–1800
- Chapter Three Cosmography at the <i>Casa, Consejo</i>, and <i>Corte</i> During the Century of Discovery
- Chapter Four Science During the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries
- Chapter Five Baroque Natures
- Chapter Six Cosmopolitanism and Scientific Reason in New Spain
- Chapter Seven Medical <i>Mestizaje</i> and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660–1730
- Chapter Eight “Read All About It”
- Chapter Nine The Indies of Knowledge, Or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil
- Chapter Ten Space Production and Spanish Imperial Geopolitics
- Chapter Eleven Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World
- Chapter Twelve Voyaging in the Spanish Baroque
- Chapter Thirteen Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire
- Chapter Fourteen The Rare, the Singular, and the Extraordinary
- Chapter Fifteen A Visible and Useful Empire
- Afterword
- Index
Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America
Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America
New Interpretations, New Approaches
- Chapter:
- (p.9) Chapter One Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America
- Source:
- Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800
- Author(s):
David Goodman
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter discusses a surge of publication on science, medicine, and technology that occurred in colonial Spanish America. It argues that empirical studies of these publications resulted in new interpretations and that new interpretations derived from radically new approaches to Ibero-American history increased. This chapter attempts to illustrate and assess these trends by critical discussion of a selection of important publications.
Keywords: publication, science, medicine, technology, colonial Spanish America, Ibero-American history
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America
- Chapter Two Portuguese Imperial Science, 1450–1800
- Chapter Three Cosmography at the <i>Casa, Consejo</i>, and <i>Corte</i> During the Century of Discovery
- Chapter Four Science During the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries
- Chapter Five Baroque Natures
- Chapter Six Cosmopolitanism and Scientific Reason in New Spain
- Chapter Seven Medical <i>Mestizaje</i> and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660–1730
- Chapter Eight “Read All About It”
- Chapter Nine The Indies of Knowledge, Or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil
- Chapter Ten Space Production and Spanish Imperial Geopolitics
- Chapter Eleven Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World
- Chapter Twelve Voyaging in the Spanish Baroque
- Chapter Thirteen Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire
- Chapter Fourteen The Rare, the Singular, and the Extraordinary
- Chapter Fifteen A Visible and Useful Empire
- Afterword
- Index
