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|b Theaters of science in seventeenth-century Mexico
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|a 1 online resource (232 p.)
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|a Director: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
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|a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-12, Section: A, page: 4447
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|a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1999
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|a Anatomy, cartography, and astronomy receive special emphasis and are studied in the contexts of specific events. Three controversial topics---the interior of the body, the city, and the cosmos---reflect the intersections between newly-emerging scientific paradigms and other models for organizing knowledge about the world (ranging from politics to aesthetics). The first chapter discusses reports of autopsies performed on viceroys and bishops. It examines how anatomical dissection, the cult of relics, and devotional practices intersect to produce readings of power, its bodies, and its networks. The second chapter focuses on two critical decades, the 1620s and the 1690s, when natural and man-caused disasters threatened the integrity of Mexico City. Moral and poetic cartographies invent and reinforce Mexico City as the harmonious product of the elements, as a microcosm. The final chapter presents the debate between astronomers and astrologers regarding the comet of 1680, and documents changes in the relationship between the scientist, the city, and the cosmos in the late seventeenth century
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|a The texts explored in this study---ranging from astrological forecasts to surgical and anatomical manuals, from maps to sermons---are analyzed here for the first time, aiming thereby to incorporate them into the canon of baroque Latin American literature
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|a This dissertation argues for a reading of scientific discourse in seventeenth-century Mexico through the thematics and rhetorics of more conventionally literary texts. While disciplinary biases have divided the study of science from that of other cultural discourses (with the consequence that colonial science has received little attention by cultural and literary historians), I suggest that such separation is misguided and anachronistic for this time period. Both scientific and literary writings shared and reinforced a common baroque episteme which favored paradox, novelty, antithesis, and inversion for its formal expression. Scientific discourse took recourse to all of these figures, and merits a detailed literary analysis, sensitive, not only to what was said, but also to how and why
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