Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World

Autor Michael Wintroub
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iul 2017
The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examines an early attempt by the French to challenge Spanish and Portuguese oceanic hegemony and to carve out an empire in the Indies. He investigates the commercial, cultural, and religious lives of provincial humanists, including their relationship to the classical authorities they revered, the literary culture they cultivated, the techniques of oceanic navigation they pioneered, and the distant peoples with whom they came into contact. Ideal for graduate students and scholars, this journey into the history of science describes the manifold and often contradictory genealogies of the modern in the early modern world.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 30515 lei

Puncte Express: 458

Preț estimativ în valută:
5846 6333$ 5014£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 19 aprilie-03 mai
Livrare express 04-10 aprilie pentru 3726 lei

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107188235
ISBN-10: 1107188237
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgements; List of figures; Introduction; 1. Information: pilgrimage in a church of poems; 2. Expertise: the heavens inscribed; 3. Translation: translating the body of thought; 4. Scale: the heart of the matter; 5. Confidence: a balance of trust; 6. Replication: disciplining monsters; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'Part of the originality of The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World lies in Wintroub's ability to move with ease between disciplines - historical, philosophical, and literary … Wintroub's erudite book repays careful reading.' Pamela O. Long, Isis

Notă biografică


Descriere

A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.