José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762-1808 / Sebastián Molina-Betancur.
Molina-Betancur, Sebastián, author.
2023
Q183.4.C7
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Title José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762-1808 / Sebastián Molina-Betancur.
Author Molina-Betancur, Sebastián, author.
ISBN 9783031287688 (electronic bk.)
3031287681 (electronic bk.)
3031287673
9783031287671
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28768-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-28768-8 doi
Call Number Q183.4.C7
Dewey Decimal Classification 509.2
Summary Basing his monograph on newly discovered documents, Molina-Betancur compels us to appreciate the plurality of meanings that the term Newtonianism could take. He achieves this by looking at the reception of Newtons ideas from the vantage point of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, rather than from a European perspective. This book not only sheds new light upon Celestino Mutiss intellectual world, but it is also an eye-opening contribution on rather broad issues concerning the relationships between science and empire. Niccol Guicciardini, University of Milan, Italy This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining Jos Celestino Mutiss lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and 1770s. Mostly famous for his botanical activities as director of the botanical expedition, Mutis lectured the first course of mathematics ever created in New Granada on his arrival in Bogota in 1762, in which he included several lectures on physics that encompassed multiple aspects of his interpretation of Newtons experimental physics. Sebastin Molina-Betancur is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universit degli Studi di Milano (Italy) where he studies the circulation of science in the Spanish colonies between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. He has been lecturer of history of science and history of philosophy at the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
Available in Other Form JOSE CELESTINO MUTIS AND NEWTONIANISM IN NEW GRANADA, 1762-1808.
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Chapter I. The administrative history of a chair
Chapter II. Newtonianism in Mutiss lectures on mathematics
Chapter III. Newtons physics in New Granada: Mutiss lectures and mathematisation of nature
Chapter IV. The circulation of Newtonianism in New Granada after Mutiss lectures.

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