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Cross-cultural scientific exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660 /

""This book expands the entire field of intellectual history, the history of the book, cultural history, and the history of science."--Pamela Long, author of Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance" ""...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ben-Zaken, Avner
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Trading Clocks, Globes, and Captives in the End Time
  • 2. Exchanging Heliocentrism for Ur-Text
  • 3. Transcending Time in the Scribal East
  • 4. Converting Measurements and Invoking the "Linguistic Leviathan"
  • 5. Exchanging Heavens and Hearts.