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BL
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1048282
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b802652
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| Main Entry
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Barrera-Osorio, Antonio,1964-
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Experiencing nature : : the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution /\ Antonio Barrera-Osorio.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Austin, TX :: University of Texas Press,, 2006.
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1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) :: maps, facsimiles
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| ISBN
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0292709811
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: 0292795947
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: 9780292709812
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: 9780292795945
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0292725949
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9780292725942
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.
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| Contents
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Searching the land for commodities -- A chamber of knowledge: the Casa de la Contratación and its empirical methods -- Communities of experts: artisans and innovation in the New World -- Circuits of information: reports from the New World -- Books of nature: scholars, natural history, and the New World -- Conclusions: the politics of knowledge -- Appendix 1. Pilots and cosmographers at the Casa de la Contratación -- Appendix 2. Instruments -- Appendix 3. Spanish scientific books.
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"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.
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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 Contratacion (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."--Jacket.
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Science-- Latin America-- History-- To 1830.
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Science-- Spain-- History-- To 1830.
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Science-- United States-- History-- To 1830.
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Science-- history.
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Erforschung
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Kolonialismus
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Naturvetenskap-- historia-- Spanien-- nya tiden.
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Naturwissenschaften
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SCIENCE-- History.
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Science.
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Spanish colonies.
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Vetenskapshistoria.
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Lateinamerika
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Latin America, History, To 1830.
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Spain, Colonies, America.
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Spain, History.
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America
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Amerika
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Latin America.
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Latinamerika, historia, nya tiden.
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Spain.
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Spanien
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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509.8
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| LC Classification
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Q127.L29B37 2006eb
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| NLM classification
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NN 1710rvk
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