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contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Science and the Jesuit Ways of Proceeding 1 part i: MissioNary ethos 1 Jesuit Struggles in Peru 13 2 Confessing the Power to Heal 36 3 Christianizing Demonic Knowledge 62 part ii: a Collaborative eNterprise 4 Science and Expansion 91 5 Astronomy between Chiloe, Lima, and Rome 116 part iii: Natura ad MaioreM dei GloriaM 6 The Two Faces of Acosta’s Historia natural y moral de las Indias 143 7 The Irreducible Difference of America 169 8 Local Nature, Local Histories 195 Epilogue: The Jesuit and the Armchair Philosopher 221 Notes 229 Bibliography 259 Index 275 ...