Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World

Orbits, Routes and Vessels

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the 18th century.People living around the turn of the 17th century were experiencing motion in ways beyond the grasp of anyone less than a century earlier.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-11-22
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in History and Philosophy of Science
Antal sidor191
Upplaga2014
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789400773820

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Note on Contributors.- Global Motion and the Production of Knowledge; Ofer Gal and Yi Zheng.- Part I. The Savant in Motion and at Home.- Two Bohemian Journeys: Real, Imaginary and Idealized Voyages at the Turn of the 17th Century; Ofer Gal.- Xu Xiake’s Travel Notes: Motion, Records and Genre Change; Yi Zheng.- Those who stayed: English Chorography and the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries; Claire Kennedy.- Part II. Dialogues and Skeptics—Traversing Geography and Cultures.- ‘How very little he can learn’: exotic visitors and the transmission of cultural knowledge in 18th Century London; Vanessa Smith.- Diplomatic Journeys and Medical Brush Talks: Eighteenth-Century Dialogues between Korean and Japanese Medicine; Daniel Trambaiolo.- The Circulation of Sericulture Knowledge through Temple Networks and Cognitive Poetics in 18th Century Zhejiang; Philip S. Cho.- Part III. Motion as Free Thinking and Social Circulation.- Travel as a basis for atheism: Free-Thinking as Deterritorialization in the Early Radical enlightenment; Charles T. Wolfe.- Late Traditional Chinese Civilization in Motion, 1400-1900; Benjamin A. Elman.- Index.