An edition of Missionary scientists
(2011)
Missionary scientists
Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810
by Andrés I. Prieto
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Missionary scientists: Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810
2011, Vanderbilt University Press
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0826517447 9780826517449
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index.
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