In collaboration with the UBC Bookstore, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre presents Dr. Neil Safier as part of Celebrate UBC Authors. Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ec-uador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equa-tor—an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. Join us as Neil Safier places this particular scien-tific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author, from Measuring the New World. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Safier, N., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2008). Measuring the new world: Enlightenment science and South America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Link]
Safier, N. (2014). The tenacious travels of the torrid zone and the global dimensions of geographical knowledge in the eighteenth century. Journal of Early Modern History, 18(1-2), 141-172. doi:10.1163/15700658-12342388. [Link]
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