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New Worlds Ancient Texts
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Author : Anthony Grafton
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1995-03-15
New Worlds Ancient Texts written by Anthony Grafton and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-15 with History categories.
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield.
New Worlds Ancient Texts
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Author : Anthony Grafton
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1992
New Worlds Ancient Texts written by Anthony Grafton and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
On encountering what he called "the Indies", the Jesuit Jose de Acosta wrote, "Having read what poets and philosophers write of the Torrid Zone, I persuaded myself that when I came to the Equator, I would not be able to endure the violent heat, but it turned out otherwise... What could I do then but laugh at Aristotle's Meteorology and his philosophy?" Acosta's experience echoes that of his fellow travelers to the New World, and it is this experience, with its profound effect on Western culture, that Anthony Grafton charts. Describing an era of exploration that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. The intellectual shift mapped out here, a movement from book learning to empirical knowledge, did not take place easily or quickly, and Grafton presents it in all its drama and complexity. What he recounts is in effect a war of ideas fought, sometimes unwittingly by mariners, scientists, publishers, scholars, and rulers over one hundred fifty years. He shows us explorers from Cortes and Columbus to Scaliger and Munster, laden with ideas gathered from ancient and medieval texts, in their encounters with the world at large. In colorful vignettes, firsthand accounts, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional images and notions of the world beyond Europe. The fundamental cultural revolution that Grafton documents still reverberates in our time. By taking us into thisbattle of books versus facts, a conflict that has shaped global views for centuries, Grafton allows us to re-experience and understand the Renaissance as it continues to this day.
New Worlds Ancient Texts
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Author : Anthony Grafton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
New Worlds Ancient Texts written by Anthony Grafton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with America categories.
New Worlds From Old Texts
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Author : Elton Thomas Edward Barker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
New Worlds From Old Texts written by Elton Thomas Edward Barker 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 2016 with History categories.
Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, New Worlds from Old Texts explores ancient Greek perceptions of space, and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view.
The New World In Early Modern Italy 1492 1750
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Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-16
The New World In Early Modern Italy 1492 1750 written by Elizabeth Horodowich and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-16 with History categories.
This volume considers Italy's history and examines how Italians became fascinated with the New World in the early modern period.
The Map Of Knowledge
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Author : Violet Moller
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2019-02-26
The Map Of Knowledge written by Violet Moller and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-26 with History categories.
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity – Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy – through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba to Catholic Toledo, from Salerno’s medieval medical school to Palermo, capital of Sicily’s vibrant mix of cultures, and – finally – to Venice, where that great merchant city’s printing presses would enable Euclid’s geometry, Ptolemy’s system of the stars and Galen’s vast body of writings on medicine to spread even more widely. In tracing these fragile strands of knowledge from century to century, from east to west and north to south, Moller also reveals the web of connections between the Islamic world and Christendom, connections that would both preserve and transform astronomy, mathematics and medicine from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Vividly told and with a dazzling cast of characters, The Map of Knowledge is an evocative, nuanced and vibrant account of our common intellectual heritage.
New Worlds Reflected
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Author : Dr Chloë Houston
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-06-28
New Worlds Reflected written by Dr Chloë Houston and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-28 with History categories.
Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fictional utopias were indebted to contemporary travel narratives, with which they shared interests in physical and metaphorical journeys, processes of exploration and discovery, encounters with new peoples, and exchange between cultures. Travel writers, too, turned to utopian discourses to describe the new worlds and societies they encountered. Both utopia and travel writing came to involve a process of reflection upon their authors' societies and cultures, as well as representations of new and different worlds. As awareness of early modern encounters with new worlds moves beyond the Atlantic World to consider exploration and travel, piracy and cultural exchange throughout the globe, an assessment of the mutual indebtedness of these genres, as well as an introduction to their development, is needed. New Worlds Reflected provides a significant contribution both to the history of utopian literature and travel, and to the wider cultural and intellectual history of the time, assembling original essays from scholars interested in representations of the globe and new and ideal worlds in the period from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and in the imaginative reciprocal responsiveness of utopian and travel writing. Together these essays underline the mutual indebtedness of travel and utopia in the early modern period, and highlight the rich variety of ways in which writers made use of the prospect of new and ideal worlds. New Worlds Reflected showcases new work in the fields of early modern utopian and global studies and will appeal to all scholars interested in such questions.
Ovid S Changing Worlds
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Author : Raphael Lyne
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001
Ovid S Changing Worlds written by Raphael Lyne and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ovid's Changing Worlds looks at the four most important English imitations of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the English Renaissance. It sheds new light on dealings with the classics in the period and shows that the emergence of English literature from the shadows was a complex and fascinating process.
Codex In Crisis
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Author : Anthony Grafton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Codex In Crisis written by Anthony Grafton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Archival materials categories.
Debating World Literature
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Author : Benedict Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2004-03-17
Debating World Literature written by Benedict Anderson and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Goethe's Weltliteratur, and the cultural forms of globalization.