Artillery, engineering and mathematics: statecraft and the scientific knowledge of military men, from the Bourbons to the creation of the Peruvian State (1770-1840)
War and preparation for it have often been drivers of technological development. This article explores the intersection between science and government, and how, in the final decades of the colonial period, engineers trained in military academies in the peninsula played a crucial role in the creation...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2019-06-01
|
| Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/75772 |