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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America by Neil Safier
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- ISBN-13
- 9780226733623
- Book Title
- Measuring the New World
- ISBN
- 9780226733623
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
- Item Height
- 228mm
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Subject
- Geography & Geosciences, Science
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- 632g
- Number of Pages
- 408 Pages
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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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The University of Chicago Press
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9780226733623
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Publication Name
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, Science
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
408 Pages
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228mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
632g
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