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Translating Nature wields a powerful antidote against accounts of the Scientific Revolution that have disingenuously linked the rise of empiricism in the West with northern, Protestant Europe, ignoring the pivotal role that the first overseas empires, Spain and Portugal, played in Europe's discovery of natural and human worlds across the globe. Written by seasoned scholars of the early modern world, this collection of essays reveals a complex information network extending all the way from native informants who provided varied natural and ethnographic knowledge to Iberian institutions and scientists to scientific communities beyond the Pyrenees. -Nicolas Wey Gomez, California Institute of Technology

Translating Nature wields a powerful antidote against accounts of the Scientific Revolution that have disingenuously linked the rise of empiricism in the West with northern, Protestant Europe, ignoring the pivotal role that the first overseas empires, Spain and Portugal, played in Europe's discovery of natural and human worlds across the globe. Written by seasoned scholars of the early modern world, this collection of essays reveals a complex information network extending all the way from native informants who provided varied natural and ethnographic knowledge to Iberian institutions and scientists to scientific communities beyond the Pyrenees. -Nicolas Wey Gomez, Caltech University

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Jaime Marroquin Arredondo is Associate Professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University. He is author or editor of several titles, including Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture, Politics and Migration. Ralph Bauer is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. He is author or editor of several books, including The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures.

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