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Knowledge of botany, medicine, religion and mining in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies
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This volume investigates processes of knowledge formation in the Iberian colonies by attempting to understand the Spanish and Portuguese contribution to the European scientific tradition, and by tracing the origins and history of this knowledge to find out how it was gained. The studies in this volume reconsider our understanding of what scientific knowledge is and introduce a variety of scientific cultures of European and non-European origin. They examine the mixing processes of scientific cultures and the role these cultures played in the colonial situation at the intersection of non-human processes and human action. The volume brings together contributions in the history of botany, art, materia medica, translation in the religious sphere of colonial missions as well as mining as a scientific, juridical and industrial endeavor. --- The series 'Proceedings' of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge presents the results of scientific meetingson current issues and supports further cooperation on these issues via an electronic platform. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications on the Internet. The material is freely accessible online at www.edition-open-access.de.
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Introduction: Competing Scientific Cultures and the Globalization of Knowledge in the Iberian Colonial World (Helge Wendt)
Making Natural History in New Spain, 1525-1590 (José Pardo-Tomás)
Transfer of Moral Knowledge in Early Colonial Latin America (Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo)
Issues of Best Historiographical Practice: Garcia da Orta's Colóquios dos simples e drogas e cousas medicinais da India (Goa, 1563) and Their Conflicting Interpretation (Sonja Brentjes)
Transferring Natural Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain from Franciscan Sources: Motolinía's Historia de los Indios de la Nueva España (1541-1569) (Emma Sallent Del Colombo)
Global Cross-Cultural Dissemination of Indigenous Medical Practices through the Portuguese Colonial System: Evidence from Sixteenth to Eighteenth-Century Ethno-Botanical Manuscripts (Timothy D. Walker)
Women's Medicine in the Cuatro Libros de la Naturaleza of Francisco Ximénez (1615): Interchanges and Displacements (Angélica Morales Sarabia)
Sheets of Paper, Tobacco Leaves: The Circulation of Knowledge About New World Plants Through Printed Books (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) (Mauricio Sánchez Menchero)
Underground Knowledge: Mining, Mapping and Law in Eighteenth-Century Nueva España (Nuria Valverde Pérez)
Coal Mining in Cuba: Knowledge Formation in a Transcolonial Perspective (Helge Wendt)
Epilogue: The Iberian Way into the Anthropocene (Helge Wendt)
