"Outstanding contributions include that on Nieremberg by Juan Pimentel, who shows the compatibility of his subject's religious and scientific thinking; Paula De Vos's entertaining account of an eighteenth-century bishop's cabinet of curiosities; and Anna More's demonstration of how personal circumstances affected the scientific vision of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora."--Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Hispanic American Historical Review "This Volume makes a strong case for re-shaping of history of science in the early modern period."--Liam Matthew Brockey, Journal of Interdisciplinary History. "This excellent volume of essays brings together a wide variety of scholars from a variety of disciplines, countries, and continents- art historians, literary scholars, and historians based in the United Stated, Spain, Northern Ireland, Brazil. Portugal, and England."--Marshall C. Eakin, The Americas "Treating science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early modern period, this volume offers a stellar collection of papers that guide readers to primary source materials as well as the newest scholarship in the field." --Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University.