Secret Science : Spanish Cosmography and the New World
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
022605540X
ISBN-13
9780226055404
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 18th, 2013
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
582 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.90 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
History of scienceAstronomy, space & time
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Spanish cosmographers were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing. The author shows that this knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies.
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