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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1 The Unexpected Menagerie of the New World
Columbus: First Contact with American Animals
The Letters of the Physicians
Vespucci
Pinzón and a Curious Animal
Cabral and the ‘Land of the Parrots’
Fernández de Enciso and Roger Barlow: Geography, Animals and Empire
The Animals of Patagonia
2 Soldiers and Amerindians
Hernán Cortés and the Menagerie of Tenochtitlán
The Mercenary and the Hero: Two Views on the Animals of the River Plate and Paraguay
Pedro Cieza de León: the Animals of a Soldier–Historian
The Brazilian Zoo of a German Among the Tupi
Vargas Machuca: a Handbook for the Conquistador
Animals in an Aztec Encyclopaedia. Bernardino de Sahagún and his General History of the Things of New Spain
The Royal Commentaries of the Inca Garcilaso
3 The New Histories of the New World
The Letters of an Italian Humanist. Peter Martyr and his Decades
Francisco Fernández de Oviedo, the Pliny of the New World
A Chronicle of the Conquest. López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies
Aristotle and the New World. José de Acosta and his Natural and Moral History of the Indies
The Relaciones of the Indies and Herrera’s General History of the Deeds of the Castilians
The Natural Histories of the New World
4 Joyful and Profitable News from the New World. Animals, Medicine and Commerce
Francisco Hernández and his History of the Animals of New Spain
Animal Drugs: Monardes’s Medicinal History and Ximénez’s Four Books
Exotic Animals. Knowledge and Interests. Clusius and his Exotica
Georg Markgraf and Willem Piso. The Dutch West India Company and the Historia naturalis Brasiliae
The Literature about the New World in Reformed Europe and the Expansion of the Northern Powers
Useful and Strategic Knowledge on Animals of the New World
5 Learned Missionaries and Jesuit Scholars
Fernão Cardim and his Treatise on the Land and the Climate of Brazil
The Franciscan Claude d’Abbeville and the History of the mission of Capuchin Fathers to the Island of Maranhão
Catholic and Calvinist Views on the Animals of French Brazil
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and his Historia naturae maxime peregrinae
Athanasius Kircher: Noah’s Ark, a Wondrous Museum and Animal Magnetism
Gaspar Schott and his Physica curiosa
6 New World Animals and Shifting Conceptions of Natural History
Natural Philosophy and Philological Quibbles. Cardano vs Julius Caesar Scaliger
Brazilian Birds and the Classics. Belon and L‘histoire de la nature des oyseaux
Animals in a Jungle of Words. Gesner’s Historia animalium
New World Animals Play a Role in the Theatre of Nature. Aldrovandi and his Historia animalium
The ‘Who’s Who’ of Seventeenth-Century Natural History. John Jonston and his Encyclopaedia on Animals
New World Animals and the ‘Scientific Revolution’
The Loss of an Enchanted View
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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