Missionary Scientists: Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810

by Andres I . Prieto (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $145.67

  Explores the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries in colonial Spanish America, revealing a little-known aspect of religion's role in the scholarship of the early Spanish Empire. Examining the writings and individuals authors who were active in South American naturalist studies, this outlines new paths of research often neglected by current scholarship.