9780226675343-0226675343-Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World

Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World

ISBN-13: 9780226675343
ISBN-10: 0226675343
Edition: Illustrated
Author: María M. Portuondo
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226675343
ISBN-10: 0226675343
Edition: Illustrated
Author: María M. Portuondo
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World (ISBN-13: 9780226675343 and ISBN-10: 0226675343), written by authors María M. Portuondo, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2009. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other European History (Geography, Earth Sciences, History & Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used European History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known.

As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies. Cosmography was thus a secret science, but despite the limited dissemination of this body of knowledge, royal cosmographers applied alternative epistemologies and new methodologies that changed the discipline, and, in the process, how Europeans understood the natural world.

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