Science in Spain and its New World dominions has become a significant subfield of the history of science. Recently, Miruna Achim edited a special transatlantic issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (vol. 8, no. 2) devoted to science, in which Experiencing Nature is mentioned several times. A year earlier, Susan Deans-Smith summarized recent publications on science in the early modern Hispanic world in her introduction to the Colonial Latin American Review special issue on the topic (vol. 15, no. 1), which includes an essay by Antonio Barrera-Osorio. In this full-length study, Barrera-Osorio surveys scientific discoveries, methods, and institutions in Spain and its far-flung kingdoms during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, arguing that the transatlantic monarchy made great (and largely unheralded) contributions to the history of science in this period. Scepters and sciences — imperialism and empiricism — were joined at the hip, he suggests in his critique...

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