Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

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Table of Contents Introduction: The Far Side of the Ocean James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew (McGill University) Part One: Networks and Circulations 1. Controlling Knowledge: Navigation, Cartography, and Secrecy in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic Alison Sandman (James Madison University) 2. The Geography of Precision in the French Atlantic World Nicholas Dew (McGill University) 3. Circulations: Benjamin Franklin's Atlantic as Medium and Message Joyce E. Chaplin (Harvard University) Part Two: Writing the American Book of Nature 4. A New World of Secrets: Occult Philosophy in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland) 5. Tropical Empiricism: Making Medical Knowledge in Colonial Brazil Junia Ferreira Furtado (Federal University of Minas Gerais) 6. American Climate and the Civilization of Nature Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire) Part Three: Itineraries of Collection 7. Empiricism and Identities in the Spanish Atlantic World Antonio Barrera (Colgate University) 8. Fruitless Botany: Joseph de Jussieu's South American Odyssey Neil Safier (University of Pennsylvania) 9. Atlantic Competitions: Botany in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California) Part Four: Contested Powers 10. The Electric Machine in the American Garden James Delbourgo (McGill University) 11. Diasporic African Sources of Enlightenment Knowledge Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan) 12. Mesmerism in Saint Domingue: Occult Knowledge and Voodoo on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution Francois Regourd (University of Paris - Nanterre) Afterword: Science, Capitalism and the State Margaret C. Jacob (UCLA)