Popular science as knowledge: early modern Iberian-American repertorios de los tiempos (2023)
Orozco-Echeverri, Sergio H. (Author)
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Pages: 31-64
Iberian repertorios de los tiempos stemmed from Medieval almanacs and calendars. During the sixteenth century significant editorial, conceptual and material changes in repertorios incorporated astronomy, geography, chronology and natural philosophy. From De Li’s Repertorio (1492) to Zamorano’s Cronología (1585), the genre evolved from simple almanacs to more complex cosmological works which circulated throughout the Iberian-American world. This article claims that repertorios are a form of syncretic knowledge rather than “popular science” by relying on the concept of “knowledge in transit”. Elaborating on this perspective, I present how repertorios ended up delivering a worldview from existing materials, a fact so far unnoticed by scholarship. At the same time, repertorios should not be considered an exclusively Iberian phenomenon, but the full scope of their nature as a form of syncretic knowledge should include their networks with migrants, indigenous, mestizos, and criollos across the Atlantic. In this sense, I try to trace the paths connecting productions in the Americas with Iberian repertorios.
...MoreArticle Sebastián Molina-Betancur (2023) The New World and the new science. Introduction. Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies (pp. 3-8).
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