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... that the crucibles of New World colonialism and Atlantic slavery played in a Scienti c Revolution and Enlightenment long presumed to be a strictly European affair, neatly conforming to anachronistic disciplinary divides and straightforwardly re ecting modernity s supposedly secularizing tendencies. Marrying science...

..., which he coined in his seminal 1962 book The Structure of Scienti c Revolutions. Although I explain there why there is a fundamental difference between the recent turns in the humanities and a Kuhnian paradigm shift in the history of science, I would like to return brie y to Kuhn s concept here, as I...

... frontiers. Ruth Colonizing the Heavens and Earth: Hill Eclecticism, Epistemology, and Evangelism in the Jesuit Valentin Stansel s Astronomy Abstract Scholars behind the epistemological turn in Latin American literary and cultural studies have paid scant attention to seventeenth-century science and scienti c...

... of how Francis Bacon, himself deeply involved in Virginia plantations by 1620, renders Harriot’s intervention into philosophy, in his famous pronouncement in the New Organon that “knowledge and power . . . really come to the same thing.” Jennifer Rae Speculation and Scienti c Method: Greeson Thomas...

... of ethnographic and scienti c knowledge making, what we might think of as the archival debris of the built environment, produced narratives that attempted to sustain the convent.3 By analyzing the makeshift nature of these archival texts, this article locates anticolonial meaning in the discrepancies between...

... to think past the lore of the raven, to transcend the mythologies of the bird in Christianity and classical texts through the methods of cognition and perception that natural history demands. The raven s bad reputation suspends sound scienti c inquiry, making impartial observation of the bird impossible...

... continent as well as the Indigenous peoples and nations powerfully galvanized the rise and spread of a discourse of sensory observation, even as colonial encounters sometimes revealed the limitations of this kind of knowledge.3 With the expansion of European empires, scienti c, historical, and forensic...

..., and John McClure, challenges both religious absolutism and the equally narrow scientis- tic variety. Instead, postsecular thinking—and by extension, postsecu- lar fiction—enables interpretive agility about traditional religions and spiritualities by complicating fixed meanings, embracing ambiguities...

..., little knowledge (see de Lavaux 1758). UNCORRECTED PROOFS Witnessing Otherwise 371 Stedman presents his witnessing as breaking new ground geographically, scienti cally, and narratively. Witnessing the interior of the country, however, requires accessing it. Stedman (1796, 1:366) notes that Dutch...