MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2010020349
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008 100520s2011 tnuaab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780826517449 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn548642376
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050 00 $aBX3714.A1$bP74 2011
082 00 $a271/.5308$222
100 1 $aPrieto, Andrés I.
245 10 $aMissionary scientists :$bJesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 /$cAndrés I. Prieto.
260 $aNashville :$bVanderbilt University Press,$c2011.
300 $ax, 287 p. :$bill., maps ;$c27 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
610 20 $aJesuits$zSouth America$xHistory.
610 20 $aJesuits$xMissions$zSouth America$xHistory.
610 20 $aJesuits$zSouth America$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aNatural history$zSouth America$xHistory.
650 0 $aReligion and science$zSouth America$xHistory.
651 0 $aPeru (Viceroyalty)$xHistory.