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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Neil Safier
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Description for Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Hardcover. Using ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, from the Andes to the Amazon River, 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: 336 pages, 20 colour plates, 59 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JF; PDX; RGV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 33. Weight in Grams: 742.
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equator - an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. 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 curious ... Read more
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equator - an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. 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 curious ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
428
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226733555
SKU
V9780226733555
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About Neil Safier
Neil Safier is assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia.
Reviews for Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
"Safier paints a dazzling picture of the gathering, formatting, circulation, and negotiation of South America in the Enlightenment. Measuring the New World will be a point of reference for scholars in history, literature, cartography, and theory in the years to come." - Tom Conley, Harvard University"