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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Autor: Pimentel, Juan
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
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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.