Science and Empire in the Atlantic World Book

List of illustrations     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction: The Far Side of the Ocean   James Delbourgo   Nicholas Dew     1
Networks of Circulation     29
Controlling Knowledge: Navigation, Cartography, and Secrecy in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic   Alison Sandman     31
Vers la ligne: Circulating Measurements Around the French Atlantic   Nicholas Dew     53
Knowing the Ocean: Benjamin Franklin and the Circulation of Atlantic Knowledge   Joyce E. Chaplin     73
Writing the American Book of Nature     97
A New World of Secrets: Occult Philosophy and Local Knowledge in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic   Ralph Bauer     99
Tropical Empiricism: Making Medical Knowledge in Colonial Brazil   Junia Ferreira Furtado     127
American Climate and the Civilization of Nature   Jan Golinski     153
Itineraries of Collection     175
Empiricism in the Spanish Atlantic World   Antonio Barrera-Osorio     177
Fruitless Botany: Joseph de Jussieu's South American Odyssey   Neil Safier     203
Atlantic Competitions: Botany in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire   Daniela Bleichmar     225
Contested Powers     253
The Electric Machine in the American Garden   James Delbourgo     255
Diasporic African Sources of Enlightenment Knowledge   Susan Scott Parrish     281
Mesmerism in Saint Domingue: Occult knowledge and Vodou on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution   Francois Regourd     311
Afterword: Science, Global Capitalism, and the State   Margaret C. Jacob     333
Contributors     345
Index     349