In Pursuit of “Useful” Knowledge: Documenting Technical Innovation in Sixteenth-Century Potosí
This article examines a series of proposals for improving silver refining methods presented to the municipal council of Potosí (in current-day Bolivia) in the late sixteenth century as a means of nuancing current understandings of the Iberian state’s pursuit of “useful” knowledge. Historians have ar...
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| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Journal for the History of Knowledge |
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| Online Access: | https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/16 |