TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asúa,Miguel de
TI  - Science in the vanished Arcadia: knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de la Plata 
T2  - Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions,
SN  - 9789004256774
AV  - BV2290 .A88 2014
U1  - 500.88/27153089 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - Missions
KW  - Paraguay
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Religion and science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Natural Histories -- 2 Herbals -- 3 Maps -- 4 The Heavens -- 5 Science in the Italian Exile -- 6 A Last Word -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Science in the Vanished Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries. Focusing on individual Jesuits and underlining the relationships of their work to the religious goals of the Society of Jesus, the book covers the disciplines of natural history, cartography, medical botany, astronomy and the topics pursued by the former missionaries in their Italian exile. Based on many so far unexplored manuscripts and a vast corpus of primary sources, the book argues the existence of a tradition of research on nature consistent with universal Jesuit science and at the same time original in its articulation of Western learning and aboriginal lore on nature
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004256774
ER  -