Estudios epistemológicos de la ciencia en el periodo hispánico de la Nueva Granada: Breve tratado del cielo y de los astros del Maestro Javeriano Mateo Mimbela

Abstract

Starting disciplinarily from the field of epistemology with emphasis on the trend of contemporary Science History, the general interest of this research is to delve into the Brief treatise on the heavens and the stars of the Xaverian Master Mateo Mimbela, elaborated in the period Hispanic of New Granada at the end of the 18th century. The idea is to carry out an investigation of the different cosmological theories expressed there through a critical apparatus, which consists of analyzing the proposals regarding the organization and conformation of the world, the universe and the organization of the stars, making a historical assessment. In this sense, it is based on a weighting of the different approaches to the Hispanic or colonial period, from a historical-critical reading that shows its shortcomings, in order to expose and contextualize the proposal of the Xaverian master. It tries to show the deficiencies of the approaches on the history of science in Colombia on the colonial period, in addition to highlighting the importance of the contribution of the Jesuits to the consolidation of science, particularly in Colonial New Granada.