Cosmography and Astrology in Manila: an Intellectual Network in the Iberian Colonial World

The following article will aim at reconstructing an intellectual network of people interested in both astrology and cosmography in seventeenth-century New Spain. This study will trace a particular means of transmission and dissemination of knowledge, namely the exchange of books on astrology, in...

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Autor principal: Ávalos Flores, Ana Cecilia
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2014
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Acceso en línea:http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/8224
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Sumario:The following article will aim at reconstructing an intellectual network of people interested in both astrology and cosmography in seventeenth-century New Spain. This study will trace a particular means of transmission and dissemination of knowledge, namely the exchange of books on astrology, in order to identify a network of astrologers and cosmographers who shared a similar educational background and who had similar motivations to get interested in the so-called occult sciences.  By doing so, this research will reflect on the problem of disciplinary boundaries during the early modern-period, and on the question of transmission of knowledge in the Iberian World.