Author: Francisco Hernández
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804739634
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This volume consists of a selection of English translations from the writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87). One of Spain's leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work The Natural History of New Spain, whose descriptions of over 3,000 plants unknown to Europe have been used for centuries by scientists, physicians, and natural philosophers.
The Mexican Year Book
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Mexican Treasury
Author: Francisco Hernández
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804739634
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This volume consists of a selection of English translations from the writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87). One of Spain's leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work The Natural History of New Spain, whose descriptions of over 3,000 plants unknown to Europe have been used for centuries by scientists, physicians, and natural philosophers.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804739634
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This volume consists of a selection of English translations from the writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87). One of Spain's leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work The Natural History of New Spain, whose descriptions of over 3,000 plants unknown to Europe have been used for centuries by scientists, physicians, and natural philosophers.
The Mexican Year Book
Author: Robert Glass Cleland
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Treasury and the Mexican Shock
Author: Kirsten Lundberg
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Category : Devaluation of currency
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Devaluation of currency
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Treasury of Mexican Folkways
Author: Frances Toor
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The customs, myths, folklore, traditions, beliefs, fiestas, dances, and songs of the Mexican people.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The customs, myths, folklore, traditions, beliefs, fiestas, dances, and songs of the Mexican people.
Financial Documents
Author: Mexico. Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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The Mexican Treasury
Author: Simon Varey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781503618961
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This volume consists of a selection of English translations from the extensive writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87). Celebrated in his own day as one of Spain's leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work on the native plants and materia medica of central Mexico. Sent to New Spain in 1570 by King Philip II to research and describe the natural history of the region, to assess the medical usefulness of the natural resources, and to gather ethnographic materials for an anthropological history, Hernández was the first trained scientist to undertake scientific work in the New World. For seven years he gathered information throughout the Valley of Mexico, learning Nahuatl, recording local medical customs, studying indigenous medicines, and writing down all his observations. The result was The Natural History of New Spain, written in Latin, which consisted of six folio volumes filled with descriptions of over 3,000 plants previously unknown in Europe (along with descriptions of a much smaller number of animals and minerals) and ten folio volumes of paintings by Mexican artists illustrating the plants and animals he described. Hernández died before he could publish his Natural History, and the materials were placed in the Escorial, where they were extensively consulted, copied, abstracted, and translated by generations of scientists, medical specialists, and natural philosophers before they were destroyed by fire in 1671. Hernández's work was still regarded as authoritative on a number of New World botanical topics as late as the nineteenth century, and his writings remain in use in popular form in Mexico today. Only a tiny fragment of the Natural History has previously appeared in English. The selections in this volume are designed to reflect the historical patterns of dissemination of the work of Hernández, giving modern readers a sense of which portions of his vast corpus entered scientific discourse and spread across two continents in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781503618961
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This volume consists of a selection of English translations from the extensive writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87). Celebrated in his own day as one of Spain's leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work on the native plants and materia medica of central Mexico. Sent to New Spain in 1570 by King Philip II to research and describe the natural history of the region, to assess the medical usefulness of the natural resources, and to gather ethnographic materials for an anthropological history, Hernández was the first trained scientist to undertake scientific work in the New World. For seven years he gathered information throughout the Valley of Mexico, learning Nahuatl, recording local medical customs, studying indigenous medicines, and writing down all his observations. The result was The Natural History of New Spain, written in Latin, which consisted of six folio volumes filled with descriptions of over 3,000 plants previously unknown in Europe (along with descriptions of a much smaller number of animals and minerals) and ten folio volumes of paintings by Mexican artists illustrating the plants and animals he described. Hernández died before he could publish his Natural History, and the materials were placed in the Escorial, where they were extensively consulted, copied, abstracted, and translated by generations of scientists, medical specialists, and natural philosophers before they were destroyed by fire in 1671. Hernández's work was still regarded as authoritative on a number of New World botanical topics as late as the nineteenth century, and his writings remain in use in popular form in Mexico today. Only a tiny fragment of the Natural History has previously appeared in English. The selections in this volume are designed to reflect the historical patterns of dissemination of the work of Hernández, giving modern readers a sense of which portions of his vast corpus entered scientific discourse and spread across two continents in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Report of the Mexican Bondholders'Committee, May 6th, 1869 (7 July, 1870).
Author: Mexican Bondholders' Committee (LONDON)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Mexico
Author: Robert Crichton WYLLIE
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Mexico and Her Financial Questions with England, Spain and France
Author: Manuel Payno
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Category : Debts, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher:
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Category : Debts, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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