The Spanish Disquiet
Portuondo, Maria M.![The Spanish Disquiet](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/287/28769842/CHSBZCOP0328769842.jpg)
In this book, historian María M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the "Spanish Disquiet"--a preoccupation with the perceived shortcomings of prevailing natural philosophies and empirical approaches when it came to explaining the natural world. Foremost among them was Benito Arias Montano--Spain's most prominent biblical scho...