María M Portuondo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María M Portuondo |
| GIVEN NAMES | María M |
| FAMILY NAME | Portuondo |
| SIGNATURE | PORTUONDO M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6124-2818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain
This essay explores the tension that existed between empiricism and the metaphysical underpinnings of Aristotelian natural philosophy in Spain during the sixteenth century. This tension was most apparent in the range of science practitioners described in this essay as “Doers” and “Thinkers.” Using the figures of cosmographer Andrés García de Céspedes, architect Juan de Herrera, and theologians Benito Arias Montano and Francisco Suárez, this essay…
Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History
Explaining an Early Modern Magnum Opus
This essay explains the approach used to formulate a historical explanation behind the early modern natural philosophy of Benito Arias Montano, as articulated in his Anima, Corpus, and Vestis trilogy, works he considered his magnum opus. This involved inquiring into his personal motivations, identifying the epistemological and methodological issues concerning natural philosophy he found to be in need of reform, and situating these within the soci…
Between Two Poles: Positivism and Historicism in the History of Contemporary Geography
Previous articleNext article FreeSecond Look: Horacio Capel, Filosofía y cienciaBetween Two Poles: Positivism and Historicism in the History of Contemporary GeographyMaría M. PortuondoMaría M. Portuondo Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn the early 1980s, Horacio Capel (b. 1941) set himself…
The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown exponentially in recent years. It focuses predominantly on questions of how people understood the rapidly changing world in which they lived - how they …
Iberian science: Reflections and studies
Over the last two decades early modern historical studies of science, medicine, and technology in the Iberian world have developed into a broad-ranging field with contributions from scholars coming from different historiographical traditions and building upon the solid scholarship of earlier generations. This special issue is an opportunity to explore the field, its recent trends, acknowledge new perspectives that have contributed to the field's …
Finding "Science" in the Archives of the Spanish Monarchy
This essay explores the history of several archives that house the early modern records of Spanish imperial science. The modern "archival turn" urges us to think critically about archives and to recognize in the history of these collections an embedded, often implicit, history that--unless properly recognized, acknowledged, and understood--can distort the histories we are trying to tell. This essay uses a curious episode in the history of science…
America and the Hermeneutics of Nature in Renaissance Europe
The discovery of the American continent by Europeans entailed not only the diffusion, consumption and cultural assimilation of new products, but also a concurrent intellectual process that can be thought of in somewhat analogous terms. Novelties from the New World had to be accommodated into prevailing natural philosophical frameworks; they had to be "consumed" by a European intelligentsia who interpreted the world mostly through the hermeneutica…
The Study of Nature, Philosophy, and the Royal Library of San Lorenzo of the Escorial
Interpretations of the iconography of the Royal Library of the Escorial have fostered many assessments of the intellectual panorama of late sixteenth-century Spain. This study advances the thesis that once the Royal Library was established in its permanent premises attempts were made to define its intellectual agenda, and in particular to redirect the study of nature undertaken there in a rather distinct and novel direction. To identify this agen…
Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World
Constructing a Narrative: The History of Science and Technology in Latin America
This article provides a general introduction to the historiography of the history of science and technology in Latin America and presents an overview of the field's principal themes, with especial focus on how these have been addressed in English‐language historical works. It engages the problems associated with constructing synthetic historical narratives and suggests ways of addressing these by using micro‐histories to explain the relationship …
Una Obra maestra: El acueducto Albear de La Habana (review)
Reviewed by: Una obra maestra: El acueducto Albear de La Habana María M. Portuondo (bio) Una obra maestra: El acueducto Albear de La Habana. By Rolando García Blanco et al.Havana: Editorial Científico-Técnica, 2001. Pp. 240. This is a comprehensive study of one of Havana's greatest public works, the Albear aqueduct, and its namesake, the aqueduct's chief engineer and [End Page 203]designer, Francisco de Albear y Fernández de Lara. Built between 1…
Plantation Factories: Science and Technology in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba
This article studies efforts by a group of plantation owners in Havana to increase production at their sugar plantations by introducing chemical sciences and new foreign technologies to their mills. The modernization plans were debated versus the conventional alternative: increasing capacity by importing hundreds of thousands of slaves and scaling up traditional methods of processing sugar. Plantation owners sought to also clarify the distinction…
Finding "Science" in the Archives of the Spanish Monarchy
This essay explores the history of several archives that house the early modern records of Spanish imperial science. The modern "archival turn" urges us to think critically about archives and to recognize in the history of these collections an embedded, often implicit, history that--unless properly recognized, acknowledged, and understood--can distort the histories we are trying to tell. This essay uses a curious episode in the history of science…
Iberian science: Reflections and studies
Over the last two decades early modern historical studies of science, medicine, and technology in the Iberian world have developed into a broad-ranging field with contributions from scholars coming from different historiographical traditions and building upon the solid scholarship of earlier generations. This special issue is an opportunity to explore the field, its recent trends, acknowledge new perspectives that have contributed to the field's …
Constructing a Narrative: The History of Science and Technology in Latin America
This article provides a general introduction to the historiography of the history of science and technology in Latin America and presents an overview of the field's principal themes, with especial focus on how these have been addressed in English‐language historical works. It engages the problems associated with constructing synthetic historical narratives and suggests ways of addressing these by using micro‐histories to explain the relationship …
Plantation Factories: Science and Technology in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba
This article studies efforts by a group of plantation owners in Havana to increase production at their sugar plantations by introducing chemical sciences and new foreign technologies to their mills. The modernization plans were debated versus the conventional alternative: increasing capacity by importing hundreds of thousands of slaves and scaling up traditional methods of processing sugar. Plantation owners sought to also clarify the distinction…
Explaining an Early Modern Magnum Opus
This essay explains the approach used to formulate a historical explanation behind the early modern natural philosophy of Benito Arias Montano, as articulated in his Anima, Corpus, and Vestis trilogy, works he considered his magnum opus. This involved inquiring into his personal motivations, identifying the epistemological and methodological issues concerning natural philosophy he found to be in need of reform, and situating these within the soci…
Between Two Poles: Positivism and Historicism in the History of Contemporary Geography
Previous articleNext article FreeSecond Look: Horacio Capel, Filosofía y cienciaBetween Two Poles: Positivism and Historicism in the History of Contemporary GeographyMaría M. PortuondoMaría M. Portuondo Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn the early 1980s, Horacio Capel (b. 1941) set himself…
Plantation Factories: Science and Technology in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba
This article studies efforts by a group of plantation owners in Havana to increase production at their sugar plantations by introducing chemical sciences and new foreign technologies to their mills. The modernization plans were debated versus the conventional alternative: increasing capacity by importing hundreds of thousands of slaves and scaling up traditional methods of processing sugar. Plantation owners sought to also clarify the distinction…
Una Obra maestra: El acueducto Albear de La Habana (review)
Reviewed by: Una obra maestra: El acueducto Albear de La Habana María M. Portuondo (bio) Una obra maestra: El acueducto Albear de La Habana. By Rolando García Blanco et al.Havana: Editorial Científico-Técnica, 2001. Pp. 240. This is a comprehensive study of one of Havana's greatest public works, the Albear aqueduct, and its namesake, the aqueduct's chief engineer and [End Page 203]designer, Francisco de Albear y Fernández de Lara. Built between 1…
Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World
Constructing a Narrative: The History of Science and Technology in Latin America
This article provides a general introduction to the historiography of the history of science and technology in Latin America and presents an overview of the field's principal themes, with especial focus on how these have been addressed in English‐language historical works. It engages the problems associated with constructing synthetic historical narratives and suggests ways of addressing these by using micro‐histories to explain the relationship …
The Study of Nature, Philosophy, and the Royal Library of San Lorenzo of the Escorial
Interpretations of the iconography of the Royal Library of the Escorial have fostered many assessments of the intellectual panorama of late sixteenth-century Spain. This study advances the thesis that once the Royal Library was established in its permanent premises attempts were made to define its intellectual agenda, and in particular to redirect the study of nature undertaken there in a rather distinct and novel direction. To identify this agen…
America and the Hermeneutics of Nature in Renaissance Europe
The discovery of the American continent by Europeans entailed not only the diffusion, consumption and cultural assimilation of new products, but also a concurrent intellectual process that can be thought of in somewhat analogous terms. Novelties from the New World had to be accommodated into prevailing natural philosophical frameworks; they had to be "consumed" by a European intelligentsia who interpreted the world mostly through the hermeneutica…
Finding "Science" in the Archives of the Spanish Monarchy
This essay explores the history of several archives that house the early modern records of Spanish imperial science. The modern "archival turn" urges us to think critically about archives and to recognize in the history of these collections an embedded, often implicit, history that--unless properly recognized, acknowledged, and understood--can distort the histories we are trying to tell. This essay uses a curious episode in the history of science…
The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown exponentially in recent years. It focuses predominantly on questions of how people understood the rapidly changing world in which they lived - how they …
Iberian science: Reflections and studies
Over the last two decades early modern historical studies of science, medicine, and technology in the Iberian world have developed into a broad-ranging field with contributions from scholars coming from different historiographical traditions and building upon the solid scholarship of earlier generations. This special issue is an opportunity to explore the field, its recent trends, acknowledge new perspectives that have contributed to the field's …
Between Two Poles: Positivism and Historicism in the History of Contemporary Geography
Previous articleNext article FreeSecond Look: Horacio Capel, Filosofía y cienciaBetween Two Poles: Positivism and Historicism in the History of Contemporary GeographyMaría M. PortuondoMaría M. Portuondo Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn the early 1980s, Horacio Capel (b. 1941) set himself…
Explaining an Early Modern Magnum Opus
This essay explains the approach used to formulate a historical explanation behind the early modern natural philosophy of Benito Arias Montano, as articulated in his Anima, Corpus, and Vestis trilogy, works he considered his magnum opus. This involved inquiring into his personal motivations, identifying the epistemological and methodological issues concerning natural philosophy he found to be in need of reform, and situating these within the soci…
Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History
The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain
This essay explores the tension that existed between empiricism and the metaphysical underpinnings of Aristotelian natural philosophy in Spain during the sixteenth century. This tension was most apparent in the range of science practitioners described in this essay as “Doers” and “Thinkers.” Using the figures of cosmographer Andrés García de Céspedes, architect Juan de Herrera, and theologians Benito Arias Montano and Francisco Suárez, this essay…
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