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Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution
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by Antonio Barrera-Osorio
Sales Rank: 729511
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 223 pages
Published by: University of Texas Press April 1, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0292709811
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0292709812
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Product Description
"A very significant contribution. This book tells a story that is usually left out of the master narrative of the history of exploration. Moreover, it tells a story based on real expeditions and experiences, and it quotes liberally and effectively from engaging reports and sixteenth-century treatises, so it should appeal to general readers as well." -Carla Rahn Phillips, Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History, University of Minnesota
As 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.
About The Author
Antonio Barrera-Osorio is Associate Professor of History at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
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