José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762–1808

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José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762–1808 is written by Sebastián Molina-Betancur and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031287681 (ISBN 10) and 9783031287688 (ISBN 13).

This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining José Celestino Mutis’s lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and 1770s. Mostly famous for his botanical activities as director of the botanical expedition, Mutis lectured the first course of mathematics ever created in New Granada on his arrival in Bogota in 1762, in which he included several lectures on physics that encompassed multiple aspects of his interpretation of Newton’s experimental physics.