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the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution
1 online resource (xi, 211 pages :) : illustrations, maps, facsimiles
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-204) and index.