Format:
1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:
9781003097778
,
1003097774
,
9781000202731
,
1000202739
,
9781000202663
,
1000202666
,
9781000202809
,
1000202801
Series Statement:
Variorum collected studies series CS961
Content:
The interests of the republic of letters in the middle east, 1550-1700 -- On the relation between the Ottoman Empire and the west European republic of letters (17th-18th centuries) -- The presence of ancient secular and religious texts in the unpublished and printed writings of Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) -- Pietro della Valle's Latin geography of Safavid Iran (1624-1628) : introduction (with Volkmar Schüller) -- Early modern western European travellers in the Middle East and their reports about the sciences -- Pride and prejudice : the invention of a 'historiography of science' in the Ottoman and Safavid empires by European travellers and writers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Peiresc's interests in the Middle East and northern Africa in respect to georgarhy and cartography -- Astronomy a temptation? : on early modern encounters across the Mediterranean Sea.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409405337
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409405337
Language:
English
