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035			_a(DE-B1597)9780292795945
035			_a(DE-B1597)586543
035			_a(OCoLC)1280944314
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aBarrera-Osorio, Antonio _eautore
245	1	0	_aExperiencing Nature : _bThe Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution / _cAntonio Barrera-Osorio.
264		1	_aAustin : _bUniversity of Texas Press, _c[2010]
264		4	_c2006
300			_a1 online resource (223 p.)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tOne Searching the Land for Commodities -- _tTwo A Chamber of Knowledge: The Casa de la contratación and its empirical methods -- _tThree Communities of Experts: artisans and innovation in the new world -- _tFour Circuits of Information: reports from the new world -- _tFive Books of Nature: scholars, natural history, and the new world -- _tConclusions: The politics of knowledge -- _tAppendix 1 Pilots and Cosmographers at the Casa de la Contratación -- _tAppendix 2 Instruments -- _tAppendix 3 Spanish Scientific Books -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aAs Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data, drew maps, and sent home specimens of America's vast resources of animals, plants, and minerals. This amassing of empirical knowledge about Spain's American possessions had two far-reaching effects. It overturned the medieval understanding of nature derived from Classical texts and helped initiate the modern scientific revolution. And it allowed Spain to commodify and control the natural resources upon which it built its American empire. In this book, Antonio Barrera-Osorio investigates how Spain's need for accurate information about its American colonies gave rise to empirical scientific practices and their institutionalization, which, he asserts, was Spain's chief contribution to the early scientific revolution. He also conclusively links empiricism to empire-building as he focuses on five areas of Spanish activity in America: the search for commodities in, and the ecological transformation of, the New World; the institutionalization of navigational and information-gathering practices at the Spanish Casa de la Contratación (House of Trade); the development of instruments and technologies for exploiting the natural resources of the Americas; the use of reports and questionnaires for gathering information; and the writing of natural histories about the Americas.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650		0	_aScience _zLatin America _xHistory _yTo 1830.
650		0	_aScience _zSpain _xHistory _yTo 1830.
650		0	_aScience _zUnited States _xHistory _yTo 1830.
650		7	_aSCIENCE / General. _2bisacsh
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/709812
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292795945
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292795945/original
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