UID:
almahu_9949434941502882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 394 pages)
ISBN:
9780429461842
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0429461844
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9780429867927
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0429867921
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9780429867910
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0429867913
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9780429867934
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042986793X
Inhalt:
Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks - local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular - as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions about what role these networks played in making knowledge, how information traveled, how it was transformed by travel, and who the brokers of this world were. Bringing together an international group of historians of science and medicine, this book looks at the changing relationship between knowledge and community in the early modern period through case studies connecting Europe, Asia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Americas. It explores a landscape of understanding (and misunderstanding) nature through examinations of well-known intelligencers such as overseas missions, trading companies, and empires while incorporating more recent scholarship on the many less prominent go-betweens, such as translators and local experts, which made these networks of knowledge vibrant and truly global institutions. Empires of Knowledge is the perfect introduction to the global history of early modern science and medicine.
Anmerkung:
Introduction: Early modern scientific networks: knowledge and community in a globalizing world, 1500-1800 /
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A scholarly intermediary between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe /
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How information travels: Jesuit networks, scientific knowledge, and the early modern Republic of Letters, 1540-1640 /
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Deciphering the Ignatian Tree: the Catholic horoscope of the Society of Jesus /
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The early modern information factory: how Samuel Hartlib turned correspondence into knowledge /
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Letters and questionnaires: the correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and the early Royal Society of London's Inquiries for Natural History /
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Ingenuous investigators: Antonio Vallisneri's regional network and the making of natural knowledge in eighteenth-century Italy /
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Corresponding in war and peace: the challenge of rebooting Anglo-French scientific relations during the Peace of Amiens /
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Giant bones and the Taunton Stone: American antiquities, world history, and the Protestant International /
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The tarot of Yu the Great: the search for civilization's origins between France and China in the Age of Enlightenment /
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Spaces of circulation and empires of knowledge: ethnolinguistics and cartography in early colonial India /
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Recentering centers of calculation: reconfiguring knowledge networks within global empires of trade /
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The Atlantic World medical complex /
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Semedo's sixteen secrets: tracing pharmaceutical networks in the Portuguese tropics /
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Following ghosts: skinning science in early modern Eurasia /
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Conceptualizing knowledge networks: agents and patterns of "flow" /
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Afterword /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Empires of knowledge. New York : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138207127
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
History.
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.4324/9780429461842
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429461842
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429461842
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