Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur P. WhitakerMeasuring the New World
Author: Neil SafierPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226733564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Science in Latin America
Author: Juan José SaldañaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292712715
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Science in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and recording practices of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and colonists introduced European scientific practices to the continent, where they hybridized with local traditions to form the beginnings of a truly Latin American science. As countries achieved their independence in the nineteenth century, they turned to science as a vehicle for modernizing education and forwarding "progress." In the twentieth century, science and technology became as omnipresent in Latin America as in the United States and Europe. Yet despite a history that stretches across five centuries, science in Latin America has traditionally been viewed as derivative of and peripheral to Euro-American science. To correct that mistaken view, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of science in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present. Eleven leading Latin American historians assess the part that science played in Latin American society during the colonial, independence, national, and modern eras, investigating science's role in such areas as natural history, medicine and public health, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, politics and nation-building, educational reform, and contemporary academic research. The comparative approach of the essays creates a continent-spanning picture of Latin American science that clearly establishes its autonomous history and its right to be studied within a Latin American context.
Francisco de Miranda
Author: John MaherPublisher: University of London Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816) was a monumental figure in the independence of Venezuela and Latin America. His physical and intellectual odyssey as an exile pursued by Spanish authorities made him the most significant proponent of Spanish-American independence in revolutionary America and Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century. This book considers Miranda as traveler (in the Americas and Europe), soldier (as a Spanish officer and later general in the French revolutionary army), intellectual (as connoisseur and creator of a great private library), and romantic figure (gentleman and lover). The authors reveal how these facets of Miranda's life shaped his constant struggle for Spanish-American independence. Contributors include David Bushnell (professor emeritus, University of Florida), John Lynch (professor emeritus, University of London), Edgardo Mondolfi Gudat (Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela), Malcolm Deas (St.Antony's College, Oxford University), and Karen Racine (University of Guelph, Canada).
The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment
Author: Elizabeth Franklin LewisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351718878
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 913
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to provide a unique transnational overview of the Hispanic Enlightenment, integrating both Spain and Latin America. Challenging the usual conceptions of the Enlightenment in Spain and Latin America as mere stepsisters to Enlightenments in other countries, the Companion explores the existence of a distinctive Hispanic Enlightenment. The interdisciplinary approach makes it an invaluable resource for students of Hispanic studies and researchers unfamiliar with the Hispanic Enlightenment, introducing them to the varied aspects of this rich cultural period including the literature, visual art, and social and cultural history.
Latin America and Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description