@article{1469810,
      recid = {1469810},
      author = {Molina-Betancur, Sebastián,},
      title = {José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada,  1762-1808 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) :},
      abstract = {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).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1469810},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28768-8},
}