An edition of Missionary scientists (2011)

Missionary scientists

Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810

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Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810

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Vanderbilt University Press
Language
English
Pages
287

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Subjects

Missions, Religion and science, Intellectual life, Jesuits, Natural history, History, Jesuits, latin america, Jesuits, missions, Natural history, south america, Peru, history

Places

South America, Peru (Viceroyalty)

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Missionary scientists: Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810
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Table of Contents

Introduction : science and the Jesuit ways of proceeding
Jesuit struggles in Peru
Confessing the power to heal
Christianizing demonic knowledge
Science and expansion
Astronomy between Chiloe, Lima and Rome
The two faces of Acosta's Historia natural y moral
The irreducible difference of America
Local nature, local knowledge
Epilogue : the Jesuit and the armchair philosopher.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
271/.5308
Library of Congress
BX3714.A1 P74 2011, BX3714.A1P74 2010

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x, 287 p. :
Number of pages
287

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OL24892687M
Internet Archive
missionaryscient00prie
ISBN 13
9780826517449
LCCN
2010020349
OCLC/WorldCat
548642376

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