Prior to 1735; South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year; the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes; the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire†passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Outstanding; Brilliant; No. 1 in EthnomusicologyBy MojochikenThis meticulously researached volume presents a portrait of Felicity; an East Indian village of Trinidad. Presented in loving and human terms the author captures the viewpoint of the villagers themselves as they explain their music and culture. Free from the troubling jargon that bedevils so many recent studies in ethnomusicology; Myers's work is a model study that deserves serious scholarly attention. Highly recommended for specialists as well as general readers; who will be interested in the extensive coverage on Nobel-prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul and his highly musical family.
