Measuring the New World

Name: Measuring the New World
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226733623
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Enlightenment Science and South America

Autor: Neil Safier

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press

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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy...

Informace o knize

Autor

Neil Safier

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2012

Stránek

408

EAN

9780226733623

ISBN

0226733629

Enbook ID

04549021

Vydavatel

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

660

Rozměry

229 x 153 x 31

Kompletní popis

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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