{"product_id":"experiencing-nature-the-spanish-american-empire-and-the-early-scientific-revolution-paperback-softback-9780292725942","title":"Experiencing Nature; The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292725942","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExperiencing Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAntonio Barrera-Osorio (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292725942\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e223 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.313 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eExperiencing Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the history of science and technology during the early period of transatlantic imperial expansion.\u003c\/div\u003e (Technology and Culture)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data, drew maps, and sent home specimens of America's vast resources of animals, plants, and minerals. This amassing of empirical knowledge about Spain's American possessions had two far-reaching effects. It overturned the medieval understanding of nature derived from Classical texts and helped initiate the modern scientific revolution. And it allowed Spain to commodify and control the natural resources upon which it built its American empire. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In this book, Antonio Barrera-Osorio investigates how Spain's need for accurate information about its American colonies gave rise to empirical scientific practices and their institutionalization, which, he asserts, was Spain's chief contribution to the early scientific revolution. He also conclusively links empiricism to empire-building as he focuses on five areas of Spanish activity in America: the search for commodities in, and the ecological transformation of, the New World; the institutionalization of navigational and information-gathering practices at the Spanish Casa de la ContrataciÓn (House of Trade); the development of instruments and technologies for exploiting the natural resources of the Americas; the use of reports and questionnaires for gathering information; and the writing of natural histories about the Americas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Searching the Land for Commodities \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. A Chamber of Knowledge: The Casa de la ContrataciÓ\u003cbr\u003en and Its Empirical Methods \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Communities of Experts: Artisans and Innovation in the New World \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Circuits of Information: Reports from the New World \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Books of Nature: Scholars, Natural History, and the New World \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusions: The Politics of Knowledge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix 1. Pilots and Cosmographers at the Casa de la ContrataciÓ\u003cbr\u003en \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix 2. Instruments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix 3. Spanish Scientific Books \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523400364312,"sku":"9780292725942","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/experiencing-nature-the-spanish-american-empire-and-the-early-scientific-revolution-paperback-softback-9780292725942","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}