Writing the History of the New World into Universal History: Colonial Chronologies and Astral Knowledge in Late-Seventeenth Century Spanish America
Abstract In this article, we study historical and astronomical works published between 1680 and 1690 by Diego Andrés Rocha, oidor of the Royal Audience of Lima, and the Creole intellectual Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, viceregal cosmographer of New Spain. We contend that for these Spanish American c...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Varia História |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-87752022000300659&tlng=en |