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Merchants Of Knowledge

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Author : Robert G. Morrison
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2025-04-22

Merchants Of Knowledge written by Robert G. Morrison and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-22 with History categories.

Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe, merchants of knowledge—multilingual and transregional Jewish scholars—became an important bridge among the powers. With this book, Robert Morrison is the first to track the network of scholars who mediated exchanges in astronomy, astrology, Qabbalah, and philosophy. Their books, manuscripts, and acts of translation all held economic value, thus commercial and intellectual exchange commingled—knowledge became transactional as these merchants exchanged texts for more intellectual material and social capital. While parallels between medieval Islamic astronomy and the famous heliocentric arrangement posited by Copernicus are already known, Morrison reveals far deeper networks of intellectual exchange that extended well beyond theoretical astronomy and shows how religion, science, and philosophy, areas that will eventually develop into separate fields, were once interwoven. The Renaissance portrayed in Merchants of Knowledge is not, from the perspective of the Ottoman Muslim contacts of the Jewish merchants of knowledge, hegemonic. It's a Renaissance permeated by diversity, the cultural and political implications of which the West is only now waking up to.

Merchants Of War And Peace

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Author : Song-Chuan Chen
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01

Merchants Of War And Peace written by Song-Chuan Chen and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with History categories.

Merchants Of Doubt

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Author : Naomi Oreskes
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-03

Merchants Of Doubt written by Naomi Oreskes and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-03 with Technology & Engineering categories.

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

Interpretation And Cultural History

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Author : Joan H Pittock
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1991-05-13

Interpretation And Cultural History written by Joan H Pittock and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-05-13 with Social Science categories.

The Universal Magazine Of Knowledge And Pleasure

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1804

The Universal Magazine Of Knowledge And Pleasure written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1804 with English literature categories.

Merchants And Marvels

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Author : Pamela Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18

Merchants And Marvels written by Pamela Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with History categories.

The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.

Knowledge Information And Business Education In The British Atlantic World 1620 1760

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Author : Siobhan Talbott
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-02-10

Knowledge Information And Business Education In The British Atlantic World 1620 1760 written by Siobhan Talbott and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-10 with History categories.

Accurate information is essential to successful business activity. The early modern period saw an increase in printed commercial information, including newspapers, printed exchange rates, and educational texts--part of the 'print revolution' that permeated all aspects of the early modern world. Rather than relying on externally-produced printed works, commercial agents retained agency in creating and sharing their own business and educational information, which was shared in other forms and prioritised and valued over printed material. This book explores the ways that merchants and other commercial agents learned about business in the early modern British Atlantic World. It considers how they acquired, dispersed, stored, and used information, as well as considering their contribution to creating and shaping that information. Prioritising a wide range of manuscript material held in disparate collections, including merchants' correspondence, letter-books, notebooks, family papers, exercise books, and ships' logs, Talbott explores the ways that knowledge, information, and business education was created, circulated, and used in the early modern British Atlantic World. It offers a new perspective on the exchange of business information in a period dominated by discussions of print, prioritising manuscript and oral forms of exchange. In doing so, it presents a more holistic account of the ways that networks of knowledge operated in early modern business, centralising the creation, circulation, and use of business information specifically by those individuals most involved in--and most affected by--its production.

Merchants Of Knowledge

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Author : Robert G Morrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-04-22

Merchants Of Knowledge written by Robert G Morrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-22 with History categories.

Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe, merchants of knowledge--multilingual and transregional Jewish scholars--became an important bridge among the powers. With this book, Robert Morrison is the first to track the network of scholars who mediated exchanges in astronomy, astrology, Qabbalah, and philosophy. Their books, manuscripts, and acts of translation all held economic value, thus commercial and intellectual exchange commingled--knowledge became transactional as these merchants exchanged texts for more intellectual material and social capital. While parallels between medieval Islamic astronomy and the famous heliocentric arrangement of Copernicus are already known, Morrison reveals far deeper networks of intellectual exchange that extended well beyond theoretical astronomy, and shows how religion, science, and philosophy, areas that will eventually develop into separate fields, were once interwoven. The Renaissance portrayed in Merchants of Knowledge is not, from the perspective of the Ottoman Muslim contacts of the Jewish merchants of knowledge, hegemonic, but is closer to a Renaissance that suits a West that is only now waking up to the cultural and political implications of its own diversity.

Gentlemen Merchants

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Author : Richard George Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1971

Gentlemen Merchants written by Richard George Wilson and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Leeds (England) categories.

English Merchants

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Author : Henry Richard Fox Bourne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866

English Merchants written by Henry Richard Fox Bourne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Great Britain categories.