Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America

Name: Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America
Price: 34.87 USD
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ISBN: 9780226733623

ISBN-10: 0226733629

ISBN-13: 9780226733623

Edition: 2008

Authors: Neil Safier

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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 Worldexamines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.29" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English