Secret science
Subtitle: Spanish cosmography and the new world
By: María M. Portuondo.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780226675343
Subjects: Cosmography -- History; Science -- Historiography; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish; Spain -- History
Description: The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists. Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered. This book shows how this cosmographic knowledge had strategic, defensive and monetary values which royal scientists had to safeguard from foreign and internal enemies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.