El Curioso Averiguador de Valencia de Alcántara
Title | El Curioso Averiguador de Valencia de Alcántara PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Valencia de Alcántara (Spain) |
ISBN |
El Curioso Averiguador De Valencia De Alcántara...
Title | El Curioso Averiguador De Valencia De Alcántara... PDF eBook |
Author | Anonymous |
Publisher | Legare Street Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-10-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781017227857 |
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Early Virginia Immigrants
Title | Early Virginia Immigrants PDF eBook |
Author | George Cabell Greer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | British |
ISBN |
Guide to Microforms in Print
Title | Guide to Microforms in Print PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1352 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Microcards |
ISBN |
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Union catalogs |
ISBN |
Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York ...
Title | Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York ... PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hoe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Catalogs, Library catalogue |
ISBN |
Secret Science
Title | Secret Science PDF eBook |
Author | María M. Portuondo |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2013-04-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022605540X |
The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known. As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies. Cosmography was thus a secret science, but despite the limited dissemination of this body of knowledge, royal cosmographers applied alternative epistemologies and new methodologies that changed the discipline, and, in the process, how Europeans understood the natural world.