Format:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047432197
Series Statement:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser. v.159
Content:
This fresh portrait of Varenius presents a young German scholar, whose books on Japan (1649), the first one from a European perspective, and on General Geography (1650) were written and published in Amsterdam and led to establishing geography as a science.
Content:
Prefatory Note / Vorbemerkung -- Chronological Table-The Life of Bernhard Varenius -- Bernhard Varenius-Family Background -- Bernhard Varenius-Stemma of Editions -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- I VARENIUS' FORMATIVE YEARS IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS TIME / VARENIUS IM BILDUNGSHORIZONT SEINER ZEIT -- Varenius and His Family: A Dynasty Dedicated to Scholarship and Rooted in Christian Philosophy (Margret Schuchard) -- Heinrich Varenius' Rettung von Johann Arndts Wahrem Christentum (Johann Anselm Steiger) -- Der Bildungsweg des jungen Bernhard Varenius (Klaus Lehmann) -- The Road to Authorship and Publications: Projects, Patronage and the Elzeviers (Margret Schuchard) -- Varenius and the World of Learning in the Dutch Republic (Rienk Vermij) -- II VARENIUS AS A TRANSMITTING AGENT OF KNOWLEDGE-JAPAN / VARENIUS ALS WISSENSVERMITTLER EINER FREMDEN WELT-JAPAN -- Reise- und entdeckungsgeschichtliche Grundlagen der Descriptio regni Iaponiae (Folker Reichert) -- Die Descriptio Regni Japoniae in der literarischen Tradition der europäischen ‚descriptiones' (Reinhard Düchting) -- Die Aneignung und Strukturierung von Wissen in der Polyhistorie. Ein Fallbeispiel: Bernhard Varenius (Horst Walter Blanke) -- III GEOGRAPHIA GENERALIS AND ITS LEGACY / DIE GEOGRAPHIA GENERALIS UND IHRE NACHWIRKUNGEN -- Varenius-ein Geograph zwischen allen Stühlen? (Frank Richter †) -- Miszellen zur Geographia Generalis des Bernhard Varenius (Ulrich Staffhorst) -- Notes on Geographia Generalis and Its Introduction to England and North America (Margret Schuchard) -- From Hackwork to Classic: The English Editing of the Geographia Generalis (Robert J. Mayhew) -- The Influence of Bernhard Varenius in the Geographical Works of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander von Humboldt (Sandra Rebok).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004163638
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bernhard Varenius Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2007 ISBN 9789004163638
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Varenius, Bernhardus 1622-1650
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Geografie
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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