Measuring the new world [electronic resource] : enlightenment science and South America / Neil Safier.
2008
Q115 .S236 2008eb
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Title
Measuring the new world [electronic resource] : enlightenment science and South America / Neil Safier.
Author
Safier, Neil.
ISBN
9780226733555 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226733556 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226733556 (cloth : alk. paper)
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 387 p., 20 p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Q115 .S236 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
509/.033
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-371) and index.
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Table of Contents
The ruined pyramids of Yaruquí
An enlightened Amazon, with fables and a fold-out map
Armchair explorers
Correcting Quito
A nation defamed and defended
Incas in the king's garden
The golden monkey and the monkey-worm.
An enlightened Amazon, with fables and a fold-out map
Armchair explorers
Correcting Quito
A nation defamed and defended
Incas in the king's garden
The golden monkey and the monkey-worm.