| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Antonio Barrera-Osorio. Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 211. $45.00.

Antonio Barrera-Osorio's thesis is that the empirical practices later associated with the Scientific Revolution were institutionalized by the Spanish crown starting in the 1530s, when the avalanche of data emanating from the New World obliged merchants, naturalists, and royal officials to "devise their own methods to collect information about these lands," the more so because descriptions of New World flora and fauna could not be found in classical texts. What Barrera-Osorio offers is a discussion of the Spanish case more or less parallel to Anthony Grafton's general account of the empiricist challenge to Aristotelianism in his classic New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (1992).

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