Motion and knowledge in the changing early modern world [electronic resource] : orbits, routes and vessels / editors, Ofer Gal, Yi Zheng.
2014
Q172 .M7 2014
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Motion and knowledge in the changing early modern world [electronic resource] : orbits, routes and vessels / editors, Ofer Gal, Yi Zheng.
ISBN
9789400773837 electronic book
9400773838 electronic book
9789400773820
940077382X
9400773838 electronic book
9789400773820
940077382X
Publication Details
Dordrecht, [Netherlands] : Springer Verlag c2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 191 p.) : ill.
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Q172 .M7 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
509
Summary
This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge. 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. Goods and people were crossing lands and oceans to distances never envisioned and in scales hardly imaginable by their recent predecessors. The earth itself has been set in motion and the heavens were populated by a whole new array of moving objects: comets, moons, sun spots. Even the motion of terrestrial objects-so close at hand and seemingly obvious-was being thoroughly reshaped. In the two centuries to follow, this incessant, world-changing motion would transform the creation, interpretation and dissemination of knowledge and the life and experiences of the people producing it: savants, artisans, pilots, collectors.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gal, Ofer.
Zheng, Yi, 1961-
Zheng, Yi, 1961-
Series
Studies in history and philosophy of science ; 30.
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