The Scientific Dialogue Linking America Asia And Europe Between The 12th And The 20thcentury

Author : Fabio D'Angelo
Publisher : Fabio D'Angelo
ISBN 13 : 8894361209
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The scientific dialogue linking America, Asia and Europe between the 12th and the 20thCentury. written by Fabio D'Angelo and published by Fabio D'Angelo. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Viaggiatori “Curatele” series seeks to recreate some scientific dialogues, namely meetings, exchanges and acquisition of theoretical and practical scientific knowledge, thus linking the cultural, historical and geographical context of America, Asia, Europe and Mediterranean Sea between the 16th and the 20th century. More specifically, the main objective is to consider the role of travellers as passeurs, as “intermediaries” for building and allowing the circulation of knowhow and the practical and theoretical knowledge from one continent to another.

Author : Stephen Case
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009237705
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel written by Stephen Case and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever comprehensive account of John Herschel's life, work and legacy, shedding new light on the history of Victorian science.

Author : Jan Mrázek
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633867339
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escaping Kakania written by Jan Mrázek and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European “semi-peripheral” (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers’ positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience. The travellers moved—as do the chapter authors—between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly “Eastern,” and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of “Europe,” “East,” and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, “races,” and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting/adapting/mimicking/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other—and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania.

Author : Alexander James Kent
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030234479
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea written by Alexander James Kent and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme was ‘Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea’. The book presents a breadth of original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant contribution to the development of this growing field and to many interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.

Author : Eric Chassefiere
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394226268
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Observers of the Aurora Borealis in Europe written by Eric Chassefiere and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular reappearance of the aurora borealis at the beginning of the 18th century, often observed simultaneously from different observatories in Europe, mobilized and federated a large community of astronomers on a European scale. It encouraged them to communicate the results of their observations and, in compiling exhaustive catalogs of information, has helped to establish a system of the aurora borealis that can be further studied in the future, according to the experimental method inherited from the previous century. This book is dedicated to some of the main aurora observers in Europe and to the human, institutional and philosophical context in which they evolved in the first half of the 18th century. Its reading should be seen as a retrospective journey through the scholarly world of the Enlightenment, during which the same scholars are frequently encountered and reencountered, yet each time in different contexts, or from different angles, with the aim of compiling an account of the swarming of ideas and encounters that constituted the development of experimental science in this pivotal period.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900447014X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michele Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu (The True Record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The True Record of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shilu, 1584) by the Jesuit missionary Michele Ruggieri was the first Chinese-language work ever published by a European. Despite being published only a few years after Ruggieri started learning Chinese, it evinced sophisticated strategies to accommodate Christianity to the Chinese context and was a pioneering work in Sino-Western exchange. This book features a critical edition of the Chinese and Latin texts, which are both translated into English for the first time. An introduction, biography, and rich annotations are provided to situate this text in its cultural and intellectual context.

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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1973-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.