Science and sovereignty : Western ideas about science and nation and their expression in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean /
"This book explores the impact of modern science on Western notions of sovereignty and its extension and interpretation within the Hispanic world. While the Scientific Revolution richly contributed to innovations in political theory, influencing thinkers as Montesquieu, Locke, and Hobbes, the d...
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College Station, TX :
VirtualBookWorm,
2021
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Table of Contents:
- Hispanic science in the colonial Greater Antilles
- Interlude: the paradoxes of science
- The impact of science on political theory
- Interlude: murderous sun
- The impact of science on political action
- Interlude: fashionable nonsense
- Scientific rebels
- Interlude: a plea for a Puerto Rican history of science
- Davids versus Goliaths
- Interlude: the Arecibo Observatory
- Small state science
- Interlude: on the benefits of democracy for the would-be tyrant