TY - BOOK ID - 77877724 TI - Secret science PY - 2009 SN - 1282239929 9786612239922 0226675378 9780226675374 9780226675343 0226675343 9781282239920 6612239921 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Cosmography KW - Science KW - Cosmology KW - History. KW - Historiography. KW - America KW - Spain KW - Discovery and exploration KW - Spanish. KW - History KW - Historiography KW - discovery, exploration, expansion, new world, europe, scientific knowledge, empire, governance, administration, cosmography, epistemology, nature, history, philosophy, spain, renaissance, humanism, ptolemy, navigation, mathematical rationalism, tordesillas question, alonso de santa cruz, juan herrera, pilots, maps, cartography, lopez velasco, lunar eclipse, bautista gesio, patronage, nonfiction. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77877724 AB - The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known.As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable st ER -