Experiencing nature : the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution / Antonio Barrera-Osorio.

• 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.

Ämnesord

Vetenskapshistoria  (sao)

Science  -- Latin America -- History -- To 1830. (LCSH)

Science  -- Spain -- History -- To 1830. (LCSH)

Science  -- United States -- History -- To 1830. (LCSH)

Naturvetenskap  -- historia -- Spanien -- Nya tiden (sao)

Latin America  -- History -- To 1830. (LCSH)

Spain  -- History. (LCSH)

Spain  -- Colonies -- America. (LCSH)

Latinamerika  -- historia -- Nya tiden (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

U:k Naturvetenskap: historia

Kqd.4 Historia: Sydamerika: 1500-

Klassifikation

Q127.L29 (LCC)

509.8 (DDC)

U:kk.4 (kssb/8)

Kqd.4 (kssb/8)