Baroque Natures: Juan E. Nieremberg, American Wonders, and Preterimperial Natural History
This chapter examines seventeenth-century American nature and the discipline of natural history, focusing on the ascetic Jesuit writer, Juan E. Nieremberg. It examines Nieremberg's works on natural philosophy and natural history: the Curiosa y oculta filosofía (Curious and Obscure Philosophy, 1...
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| Tipo de recurso: | otro |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/412920 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/412920 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | American nature Natural History Juan E. Nieremberg Curious and Obscure Philosophy Historia naturae Maxime peregrinae History of Nature Natural history Americas philosophy |
| Sumario: | This chapter examines seventeenth-century American nature and the discipline of natural history, focusing on the ascetic Jesuit writer, Juan E. Nieremberg. It examines Nieremberg's works on natural philosophy and natural history: the Curiosa y oculta filosofía (Curious and Obscure Philosophy, 1649), which deals with wonders and curiosities of nature; and Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae (History of Nature, the Greatest Pilgrim; 1635), a miscellaneous work that lies in between travel literature and treatises of exotic therapeutics. |
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