Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World - Maria M. Portuondo - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226055404 - April 18, 2013
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Maria M. Portuondo
Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World

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Spanish cosmographers were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing. The author shows that this knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies.

360 pages, 10 colour plates, 18 halftones

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 18, 2013
ISBN13 9780226055404
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 352
Dimensions 229 × 153 × 23 mm   ·   582 g

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