TY - BOOK ID - 119318679 TI - José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762–1808 PY - 2023 SN - 3031287681 3031287673 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Latin America—History. KW - Intellectual life—History. KW - Science—History. KW - Latin American History. KW - Intellectual History. KW - History of Science. KW - Science KW - Study and teaching KW - History KW - Mutis, José Celestino, KW - Newton, Isaac, KW - Influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119318679 AB - Basing his monograph on newly discovered documents, Molina-Betancur compels us to appreciate the plurality of meanings that the term ‘Newtonianism’ could take. He achieves this by looking at the reception of Newton’s ideas from the vantage point of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, rather than from a European perspective. This book not only sheds new light upon Celestino Mutis’s intellectual world, but it is also an eye-opening contribution on rather broad issues concerning the relationships between science and empire. Niccolò Guicciardini, University of Milan, Italy This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining José Celestino Mutis’s lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and 1770s. Mostly famous for his botanical activities as director of the botanical expedition, Mutis lectured the first course of mathematics ever created in New Granada on his arrival in Bogota in 1762, in which he included several lectures on physics that encompassed multiple aspects of his interpretation of Newton’s experimental physics. ER -