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José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762-1808 / Sebastián Molina-Betancur.

9783031287688 (electronic bk.)
3031287681 (electronic bk.)
3031287673
9783031287671

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

©2023

English

1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

10.1007/978-3-031-28768-8 doi

Q183.4.C7

509.2

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).

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