Searching for the secrets of nature
Subtitle: the life and works of Dr. Francisco Hernández
By: Simon Varey, Rafael Chabrán, Dora B. Weiner, editors.
Contributors: Varey, Simon, 1951-; Chabrán, Rafael.; Weiner, Dora B.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780804739641
Subjects: Hernández, Francisco, -- 1517-1587; Natural history -- Mexico; Materia medica -- Mexico
Other titles: Life and works of Dr. Francisco Hernández
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The world of Dr. Francisco Hernández / Dora B. Weiner; title: Philip II: imperial obligations and scientific vision / Peter O'Malley Pierson; title: The classical tradition in Renaissance Spain and new trends in philology, medicine, and materia medica / Rafael Chabrán; title: Francisco Hernández, Renaissance man / Simon Varey; title: Hernández in México: exile and censorship? / Carmen Benito-Vessels; title: Regulation of medical practitioners in the age of Francisco Hernández / John Jay Tepaske; title: Shelter and care for natives and colonists: hospitals in sixteenth-century New Spain / Guenter B. Risse; title: Illness, epidemics, and displaced classes in sixteenth-century New Spain / Elsa Malvido; title: Anthropology, reason, and the dictates of faith in the Antiquities of Francisco Hernández / David A. Boruchoff; title: Entr'acte / Rafael Chabrán and Simon Varey; title: The reception of American drugs in Europe, 1500-1650 / J. Worth Estes; title: The contribution of Hernández to European botany and materia medica / José M. López Piñero and José Pardo Tomás; title: Hernández in the Netherlands and England / Rafael Chabrán and Simon Varey; title: Hernández and Spanish painting in the seventeenth century / María José López Terrada; title: Globalizing the Natural history / Jaime Vilchis; title: The circulation of the work of Hernández in nineteenth-century Spain / Leoncio López-Ocón; title: Latino Catholic civilization: patterns of health and demography / David Hayes-Bautista; title: The popular legacy of Francisco Hernández / Simon Varey and Rafael Chabrán.