Download or read book Historia Natural Libros VII X XI y XII written by Cayo Plinio Segundo and published by . This book was released on 1600 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historia natural Libros VII XI written by Plinio el Viejo and published by RBA Libros. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plinio sigue dando muestras de su curiosidad insaciable. Si bien en estos libros de zoología comete algunos errores y no logra componer un estudio naturalista serio, transmite gran cantidad de conocimientos curiosos e interesantes sobre el estado de la ciencia en su tiempo. Este volumen comprende los libros VII-XI, dedicados a antropología y zoología. El libro VII trata del hombre como especie (su fragilidad ante la naturaleza, generación, fisiología, curiosidades y monstruosidades, cualidades extraordinarias, etc.). En el libro VIII el tema central son los animales terrestres; en el IX, los acuáticos; en el X, las aves, y en el XI, los insectos. Es en estos libros de zoología donde se ve más claramente que, a pesar del título de la obra, Plinio no es un verdadero naturalista en el sentido moderno de la palabra, pues no hace una descripción fisiológica o anatómica exhaustiva de los animales, sino que se interesa más por la noticia curiosa, por las anécdotas en las que intervienen animales. Se trata, en cualquier caso, de una obra única por la información que ofrece sobre determinados aspectos de la vida cotidiana en Roma.
Download or read book Historia natural Libros XII XVI written by Plinio el Viejo and published by RBA Libros. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Por su amor a la naturaleza, Plinio conecta fácilmente con la sensibilidad del lector actual. Los libros XII-XVI de la Historia natural tratan de botánica –que, junto con la zoología del volumen anterior, constituye el verdadero núcleo de toda la obra–. Plinio orienta su tratamiento hacia la medicina y los remedios salutíferos, como es propio de la tendencia práctica dominante en las producciones científicas de los romanos. Además, a Plinio le interesa destacar en qué momento se introduce el cultivo de los árboles en Roma, especialmente el de los frutales; cuándo comienzan a llegar productos de lujo importados de tierras lejanas, como el azúcar o la pimienta; cuál es la utilidad de los árboles en la alimentación o en diferentes industrias, desde la perfumería hasta la elaboración del papiro para la escritura, y qué función institucional desempeñan en la vida social, política y religiosa de Roma. El punto de vista que adopta Plinio es el del naturalista capaz de citar todas las variedades conocidas de cada especie, pero también el de un espíritu inquieto atento a subrayar todos los detalles culturales, históricos e incluso fabulosos que acompañan la llegada del árbol a Roma.
Download or read book Historia natural Libros XVII XIX written by Plinio el Viejo and published by RBA Libros. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De la vasta producción de Plinio el Viejo solo ha llegado a nosotros la Historia Natural, en treinta y siete libros, sin duda la enciclopedia antigua más amplia y erudita que conocemos. Esta obra es tanto natural como cultural: contempla el mundo, ante y sobre todo, como el escenario de la vida y actividad humana y, movida por esa concepción, pone en primer plano todo cuanto el hombre ha sido capaz de hacer con la naturaleza. La quinta entrega de esta vasta obra editada por Gredos incluye los libros XVII-XIX, que concluyen la amplia sección dedicada a las plantas, iniciada en los libros XII-XVI, y un amplísimo y detallado triple índice en el que se recogen los nombres propios de persona y de lugar, y los términos botánicos. Como en los anteriores volúmenes de Historia Natural, la traducción, notas e índices de la obra corren a cargo de un equipo de especialistas coordinados por Ana M.a Moure Casas, Catedrática de la Universidad Complutense.
Download or read book Historia natural Libros III IV written by Plinio el Viejo and published by RBA Libros. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En los últimos confines del imperio aparecen rasgos de una especie de geografía fantástica, que fue muy incitante para descubridores y viajeros de la edad moderna (Marco Polo, Colón). Plinio el Viejo prosigue en los libros de este volumen el estudio de la Geografía que ha iniciado en el libro II, con un paseo por la inmensidad del Imperio. En los libros III y IV describe el Mediterráneo occidental y oriental: Hispania, la Galia, Italia, Grecia y Asia Menor. En el V, el África entonces conocida –muy especialmente el Nilo–, Oriente Medio y Turquía. En el VI, Asia y lo que quedaba del gran imperio de Alejandro. Para el lector español el libro III posee un interés especial. Plinio cita pocas ciudades de la Península y, en cambio, menciona muchos nombres de pueblos y de tribus, pues en Roma era muy útil conocer los pueblos tributarios y Plinio estaba al corriente de esos datos por su pertenencia a la administración. El estilo alcanza sus mejores momentos con la descripción de los ríos. En los últimos confines del imperio, a los que Plinio dedica buena parte de los libros V y VI, aparecen rasgos de una especie de geografía fantástica, que fue muy incitante para descubridores y viajeros de la edad moderna (Marco Polo, Colón), y así habla de sociedades utópicas, que no conocen el dinero, ni practican el sexo, pueblos cuya ubicación es tan poco clara para Plinio que pueden encontrarse desde el Norte de Europa a los límites del Caspio, como el caso de los sármatas. Es la geografía universal, o sea, una geografía del imperio romano.
Download or read book Historia Natural Libros VII y VIII written by Cayo Plinio Segundo and published by . This book was released on 1600 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana vetustissima written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Designs written by Elizabeth Gansen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and visual and textual analysis, Elizabeth Gansen explores how Oviedo, in his writings, brought the European Renaissance to bear on his understanding of New World nature. Oviedo learned much from the humanists with whom he came into contact in the courtly circles of Spain and Italy, including Giovanni Battista Ramusio and Pietro Bembo, and witnessed Christopher Columbus regaling Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand with news from his inaugural voyage to the Indies. Fascinated by the Caribbean flora and fauna Oviedo encountered on his arrival to the Caribbean in 1514, he made them the protagonists of his writings on the Indies. From his consumption of the prickly pear cactus, which led him to believe his death was imminent, to the behavior of the iguana, which defied his efforts to determine if the lizard was fish or flesh, his works reveal the challenges at the heart of Spain’s encounter with the biological wonders of the Americas. Natural Designs foregrounds Oviedo’s role as a writer, illustrator, and editor of New World nature. As much as Oviedo is credited as a pioneer in the literary genre of American natural history, his contributions to early modern conceptions of the flora and fauna of the Indies are still not widely understood and appreciated. Gansen situates us in the early sixteenth century to reappraise the works of the Spanish historian who first shaped these realities.
Download or read book Conquering nature in Spain and its empire 1750 1850 written by Helen Cowie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to survey, inventory and exploit the natural productions of her overseas possessions, orchestrating a serries of scientific expeditions and cultivating and displaying American fauna and flora in metropolitan gardens and museums. This book assesses the cultural significance of natural history, emphasising the figurative and utilitarian value with which eighteenth-century Spaniards invested natural objects, from globetrotting elephants to three-legged chickens. It considers how the creation, legitimisation and dissemination of scientific knowledge reflected broader questions of imperial power and national identity. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Spanish and Latin American History, the History of Science and Imperial Culture
Download or read book Spanish Colonial Literature in South America written by Bernard Moses and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incluye mapa de Suramerica.
Download or read book The Ancient Quipu Or Peruvian Knot Record written by Leslie Leland Locke and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books of the Brave written by Irving A. Leonard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original appearance in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to the Spanish New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and argues that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their experiences. UC Press's 1992 edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources—nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. Rolena Adorno's introduction reaffirms the lasting value of Books of the Brave and chronicles developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books of the Brave written by Irving Albert Leonard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and goes on to argue that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their New World experiences. For the first time in English, this edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources--nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information that is sure to spark future study, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. Rolena Adorno's introduction signals the lasting value of Books of the Brave and brings the reader up to date on developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World. Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and goes on to argue that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their New World experiences. For the first time in English, this edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources--nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information that is sure to spark future study, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. Rolena Adorno's introduction signals the lasting value of Books of the Brave and brings the reader up to date on developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts Maps and Drawings in the British Museum Natural History written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Totalitarian State of the Past written by Rafael Karsten and published by Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
