A New World of Animals: Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America

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