Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014, written by Agustín Udías
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pinheiro Mourão's Tratado único das bexigas, e sarampo (Lisbon, 1683), or João Curvo Semedo's collection Polyanthea medicinal (Lisbon, 1697).Examining the concern common to the treatises (the description and cure of tropical fevers), Cagle highlights the congruence of viewpoints held by metropolitan doctors.In these, he finds support for his argument for a unity in a cohesive intertropical world and for an ecological, environmental, and epidemiological coherence which, in the Portuguese empire, was described from Asia to the Atlantic.As he concludes in the Epilogue: "it took two centuries to assemble the tropics" (306).Pleasant to read and extensively annotated, revealing an analysis of a vast and specialized bibliography and profound archival research, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700, is a stimulating read and an interesting working resource for those who, in their research, seek an innovative perspective on the knowledge of the colonial natural world and the healing arts practiced in the Portuguese empire up to the dawn of the 1700s.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".