Introduction : An age of translation / Ralph Bauer and Jaime Marroquín Arredondo
Part I. Amerindian knowledge and Spain's New World
ch. 1. Sighting and haunting of the South Sea : on Ponquiaco, Balboa, and what maps conceal / Juan Pimentel
ch. 2. The method of Francisco Hernández : early modern science and the translation of Mesoamerica's natural history / Jaime Marroquín Arredondo
ch. 3. Bernabé Cobo's inquiries in the natural world and native knowledge / Luis Millones Figueroa
Part II. Amerindian knowledge in the Atlantic world
ch. 4. Pictorial knowledge on the move : the translations of the Codex Mendoza / Daniela Bleichmar
ch. 5. The Quetzal takes flight : microhistory, Mesoamerican knowledge, and early modern natural history / Marcy Norton
ch. 6. Local linguistics and indigenous cosmologies of the early eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Sarah Rivett
Part III. American nature and the politics of translation
ch. 7. The crucible of the tropics : alchemy, translation, and the English discovery of America / Ralph Bauer
ch. 8. Flora's fate : Spanish materia medica in manuscript / John Slater
ch. 9. New worlds, ancient theories : reshaping climate theory in the early colonial Atlantic / Sara Miglietti
Part IV. Translation in the transoceanic Enlightenment
ch. 10. Columbian circulations in the North Atlantic world : François-Madeleine Vallée in eighteenth-century ële Royale / Christopher Parsons
ch. 11. Native engravings on the global Enlightenment : Pedro Murillo Velarde's sea map and historical geography of the Spanish Philippines / Ruth Hill
Afterword: Lost in translation / William Eamon.