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Measuring the New World
Neil Safier
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Description for Measuring the New World
Paperback. Examining the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Num Pages: 428 pages, 79 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226733623
SKU
V9780226733623
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About Neil Safier
Neil Safier is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia.
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