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Exploration, religion and empire in the sixteenth-century Ibero-Atlantic world : a new perspective on the history of modern science / Mauricio Nieto Olarte ; translation Jimmy Weiskopf.

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The Iberian conquest of the Atlantic at the beginning of the sixteenth century had a notable impact on the formation of the new world order in which Christian Europe claimed control over a considerable part of the planet. This was possible thanks to the confluence of different and inseparable factor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Nieto Olarte, Mauricio (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
Series:Maritime humanities, 1400-1800.
Subjects:
Natural history > America > History > 16th century.
Portugal > History > 16th century.
Spain > History > 16th century.
America > History > 16th century.
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
America > Early accounts to 1600.
Discoveries in geography > Spanish.
Natural history.
America.
Portugal.
Spain.
Early works.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic
  • The imperial bureaucracy and the appropriation of the New World
  • The piloto mayor : cosmography and the art of navigation
  • Machines of the empire
  • The Master Map (Padrón Real) and the cartography of the New World
  • The creatures of God never seen before : natural history
  • The New World, global science, and Eurocentrism.

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