Missionary scientists
Subtitle: Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810
By: Andrés I. Prieto
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780826517449
Subjects: Missions; Religion and science; Intellectual life; Jesuits; Natural history; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : science and the Jesuit ways of proceeding; title: Jesuit struggles in Peru; title: Confessing the power to heal; title: Christianizing demonic knowledge; title: Science and expansion; title: Astronomy between Chiloe, Lima and Rome; title: The two faces of Acosta's Historia natural y moral; title: The irreducible difference of America; title: Local nature, local knowledge; title: Epilogue : the Jesuit and the armchair philosopher.