In Science in the Vanished Arcadia Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Miguel de Asúa, M.D. (1976) University of Buenos Aires, Ph.D. (1992) University of Notre Dame, is a historian of science at the National Research Council for Science and Technology (Argentina). He has published extensively on Medieval and Latin American science.