Published 2009
Table of Contents:
“…Nieremberg, American Wonders, and Preterimperial Natural History / Juan Pimentel -- Cosmopolitanism and Scientific Reason in New Spain: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Dispute over the 1680 Comet / Anna More -- Medical Mestizaje and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730 / Martha Few -- "Read All About It": Science, Translation, Adaptation, and Confrontation in the Gazeta de Literatura de México, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark -- The Indies of Knowledge, or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil / Júnia Ferreira Furtado -- Space Production and Spanish Imperial Geopolitics / Nuria Valverde and Antonio Lafuente -- Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World / Antonio Barrera-Osorio -- Voyaging in the Spanish Baroque: Science and Patronage in the Pacific Voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 1605-1606 / Kevin Sheehan -- Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire / Timothy Walker -- The Rare, the Singular, and the Extraordinary: Natural History and the Collection of Curiosities in the Spanish Empire / Paula De Vos -- A Visible and Useful Empire: Visual Culture and Colonial Natural History in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World / Daniela Bleichmar -- Afterword / Noble David Cook and Alexandra
Parma Cook.…”
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