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9781138207134: Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World
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ISBN 10: 1138207136 ISBN 13: 9781138207134
Editorial: Routledge, 2018

Sinopsis

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.

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Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University, USA. Her research focuses on science and culture in early modern Italy. She is the 2016 recipient of the Premio Galileo. Recent publications include Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500–1800.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1138207136
ISBN 13 
9781138207134
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
412
Editor
Findlen Paula
Contacto del fabricante
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