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Prieto, Andres I.

Missionary Scientists Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 / [Recurso electrónico] : Andres I. Prieto. - Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 287 p. :) ill., maps ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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

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.

Libro Electrónico

ISBN: 9780826517463

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Subjects--Corporate Names:
Jesuits--Intellectual life--History.--South America
Jesuits--Missions--History.--South America
Jesuits--History.--South America

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion and science--History.--South America
Natural history--History.--South America

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Peru (Viceroyalty)--History.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BX3714.A1 / P74 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 271/.5308