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Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650) /
Bernhard Varenius' books influenced the history of science in such a way that Isaac Newton, Alexander von Humboldt and Tsar Peter the Great all referred to him. Varenius wrote the first comprehensive description of Japan (""Descriptio regni Japoniae, "" 1649) from a European...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 159. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Bernhard Varenius' books influenced the history of science in such a way that Isaac Newton, Alexander von Humboldt and Tsar Peter the Great all referred to him. Varenius wrote the first comprehensive description of Japan (""Descriptio regni Japoniae, "" 1649) from a European perspective, exclusively based on a diversity of sources. But the impact of his ""Geographia generalis"" (1650) explains his ranking among the founding fathers of geography as a science. He called 'general' geography a branch of (applied) mathematics which does not deal with regional specifics. The contributions in this boo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-335) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047432197 9047432193 1281940038 9781281940032 9786611940034 6611940030 |
| ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |