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Книга Measuring the New World Neil Safier

Measuring the New World

Enlightenment Science and South America

Автор: Neil Safier
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: The University of Chicago Press
Наличност: Външен склад
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38.88 € 76.04 лв
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy...

Информация за книгата

Автор
Neil Safier
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
2012
страници
408
EAN
9780226733623
ISBN
0226733629
Enbook ID
04549021
Издател
The University of Chicago Press
Теглоt
660
Размери
229 x 153 x 31

Пълно описание

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish-American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a "sacred fire" passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America. By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, "Measuring the New World" examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.

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