TY - BOOK ID - 19091092 TI - Science in the vanished Arcadia : knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de la Plata PY - 2014 SN - 9789004256767 9004256768 9004256776 9789004256774 1306948924 9781306948920 PB - Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Religion and science. KW - Jesuits KW - Missions KW - History KW - 271.5 <8> KW - 378.4 <8=6> KW - Christianity and science KW - Geology KW - Geology and religion KW - Science KW - Science and religion KW - 271.5 <8> Jezuïeten--Zuid-Amerika KW - Jezuïeten--Zuid-Amerika KW - 378.4 <8=6> Universiteiten--Latijns Amerika KW - Universiteiten--Latijns Amerika KW - Religious aspects KW - Compagnie de Jésus KW - Compañia de Jesus KW - Gesellschaft Jesu KW - Jesuitas KW - Jesuiten KW - Jesuiti KW - Jezuïten KW - Jésuites KW - Paters Jezuïten KW - Societeit van Jezus KW - Society of Jesus KW - Societas Jesu KW - イエズス会 KW - カトリック イエズス会 KW - Religion and science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19091092 AB - 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. ER -