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Missionary scientists Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810

Title: Missionary scientists [electronic resource] : Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 / Andrés I. Prieto.
Author: Prieto, Andrés I.
Publication: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2011.

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Description

1 online resource (x, 287 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Missionary scientists (Online)

Alternative Title

Missionary scientists (Online)

Subject

Jesuits > South America > History
Jesuits > Missions > History. > South America
Jesuits > South America > Intellectual life
Natural history > South America > History
Religion and science > South America > History
Peru (Viceroyalty) > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction : science and the Jesuit ways of proceeding -- Jesuit struggles in Peru -- Confessing the power to heal -- Christianizing demonic knowledge -- Science and expansion -- Astronomy between Chiloe, Lima and Rome -- The two faces of Acosta's Historia natural y moral -- The irreducible difference of America -- Local nature, local knowledge -- Epilogue : the Jesuit and the armchair philosopher.

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