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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World : The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 1: Life, Work and Legacy /
Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Studies in the History of Knowledge
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Studies in the History of Knowledge
- CONTENTS
- Volume 1 Life, Work and Legacy
- Preface
- PART I - CONTEXT
- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 2 CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN DUTCH BRAZIL?
- PART II - BIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER 3 YOUTH IN GERMANY
- CHAPTER 4 A CRUCIAL YEAR AT LEIDEN UNIVERSITY
- CHAPTER 5 LIFE IN BRAZIL
- CHAPTER 6 LEGACY
- PART III - ASTRONOMY
- CHAPTER 7 BACKGROUND
- CHAPTER 8 SETTING AND EQUIPMENT
- CHAPTER 9 OBSERVATIONS IN LEIDEN AND RECIFE
- PART IV - CONCLUSION AND EPILOGUE
- CHAPTER 10 RETROSPECTIVE
- APPENDICES
- NOTES
- CONSULTED ARCHIVES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- LITERATURE
- INDEX