José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762-1808

2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-28767-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Molina-Betancur, Sebastián

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter I. The administrative history of a chair.- Chapter II. Newtonianism in Mutis’s lectures on mathematics.- Chapter III. Newton’s physics in New Granada: Mutis’s lectures and mathematisation of nature.- Chapter IV. The circulation of Newtonianism in New Granada after Mutis’s lectures.

Über Autor(innen)

Sebastián Molina-Betancur is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) where he studies the circulation of science in the Spanish colonies between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. He has been lecturer of history of science and history of philosophy at the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).