
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic
- 2 The imperial bureaucracy and the appropriation of the New World
- 3 The piloto mayor: cosmography and the art of navigation
- 4 Machines of the empire
- 5 The Master Map (Padrón Real) and the cartography of the New World
- 6 The creatures of God never seen before: natural history
- 7 The New World, global science, and Eurocentrism
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic
- 2 The imperial bureaucracy and the appropriation of the New World
- 3 The piloto mayor: cosmography and the art of navigation
- 4 Machines of the empire
- 5 The Master Map (Padrón Real) and the cartography of the New World
- 6 The creatures of God never seen before: natural history
- 7 The New World, global science, and Eurocentrism
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index
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- Exploration, Religion and Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-Atlantic WorldA New Perspective on the History of Modern Science, pp. 7 - 10Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2021