Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World

The rule of this dynasty during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries cannot be explained without the fundamental milestones pointed out by Portuondo: that the discovery of America changed ways in which the science of cosmography was taught and practiced, that cosmography was a key discipline to a...

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Published in:Journal of World History 2012, Vol.23 (4), p.970-973
Main Author: Del Rio Parra, Elena
Format: Review
Language:English
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Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Bureaucracy
Epistemology
Human resources
Patronage
Science
Spain
Spanish
U.S.A
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Summary:The rule of this dynasty during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries cannot be explained without the fundamental milestones pointed out by Portuondo: that the discovery of America changed ways in which the science of cosmography was taught and practiced, that cosmography was a key discipline to address the lack of information in the imperial territories overseas, that it changed the bureaucratic structure although being highly secretive and censored, and that it became a fundamental practice for the exploitation of natural and human resources. According to the author, the work of cosmographers was overtaken by less censored narrators, while mathematicians imposed an epistemological approach based on calculations, evident in cosmographer Andrés García de Céspedes's latter work.
ISSN:1045-6007
1527-8050