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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prieto, Andrés I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Jesuits > South America > History.
Jesuits > Missions > South America > History.
Jesuits > South America > Intellectual life.
Natural history > South America > History.
Religion and science > South America > History.
Peru (Viceroyalty) > History.
Table of 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 histories
  • Epilogue : the Jesuit and the armchair philosopher.