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Sharon Kingsland
Department Chair

History of Science and Technology
3505 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

phone 410-516-7501
danielle@jhu.edu

Maria M. Portuondo, Ph.D.

Spanish history of science
Contact Information:
Telephone: 410-516-7503
E-mail: mportuondo@jhu.edu


Recent Publications:

Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

“El séptimo escritorio. Instrumentos matemáticos, artefactos filosóficos y los secretos de la naturaleza.” Proceedings from the Conference Lastanosa: Art and Science in the Baroque (May 28- June 1, 2007, Huesca, Spain) Argensola 117 (May-June 2008).

“La astrología y los fenómenos naturales.” 17-23. In, Bibliotheca Mágica. Catálogo de exposición en la Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2007

“Cosmography at the Casa, Consejo and[db1]  Corte[db2]  During the Century of Discovery.” In, Daniela Bleichmar, Kristin Huffine, and Kevin Sheehan, eds. Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800. Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2008

“Spanish Cosmography and the New World Crisis.” In, Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution / Mas allá de la Leyenda Negra: España y la Revolución Científica,” William Eamon and Victor Navarro Brotóns, eds. Valencia: Soler, 2007.

Review of Una obra maestra: El acueducto Albear de La Habana, by Rolando García Blanco. Technology and Culture 46, no. 1 (2005): 203-205.

"Plantation Factories: Science and Technology in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba." Technology and Culture 44, no. 2 (2003): 231-257.


Current Research:

Spanish history of science in the 16th century.

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