Measuring the New World - Enlightenment Science and South America

Informationen zum Autor Neil Safier is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext Examining the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East! this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Zusammenfassung Examining the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East! this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Safier, Safier Neil
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2012
• EAN: 9780226733623
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73362-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, SCIENCE / History, History of Science