The Scientific Dialogue Linking America Asia And Europe Between The 12th And The 20thcentury
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The Scientific Dialogue Linking America Asia And Europe Between The 12th And The 20thcentury
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Author : Fabio D'Angelo
language : en
Publisher: Fabio D'Angelo
Release Date : 2018-06-11
The Scientific Dialogue Linking America Asia And Europe Between The 12th And The 20thcentury written by Fabio D'Angelo and has been published by Fabio D'Angelo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
The first volume of Viaggiatori “Curatele” series seeks to recreate some scientific dialogues, namely meetings, exchanges and acquisition of theoretical and practical scientific knowledge, thus linking the cultural, historical and geographical context of America, Asia, Europe and Mediterranean Sea between the 16th and the 20th century. More specifically, the main objective is to consider the role of travellers as passeurs, as “intermediaries” for building and allowing the circulation of knowhow and the practical and theoretical knowledge from one continent to another.
Horizons
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Author : James Poskett
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-03-24
Horizons written by James Poskett and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-24 with History categories.
'Superb' Sunday Times 'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts 'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili _______________ A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe. The blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual 'genius' - Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, Einstein - was only one part of the story. The reality was an utterly global, non-linear pattern of cross-fertilization, competition, cooperation and outright conflict. Each rupture in history carved fresh channels for global exchange. Here, for the first time, Poskett celebrates how scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific were integral to this very human story. We meet Graman Kwasi, the African botanist who discovered a new cure for malaria; Hantaro Nagaoka, the Japanese scientist who first described the structure of the atom; and Zhao Zhongyao, the Chinese physicist who discovered antimatter. _______________ 'Remarkable. Challenges almost everything we know about science in the West' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in 12 Maps 'Perspective-shattering' Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller, 'Editor's Choice' 'Horizons upends traditional accounts of the history of science' Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred 'Poskett deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider history of science . . . brims with clarity' Chris Allnutt, Financial Times
The Cambridge Companion To John Herschel
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Author : Stephen Case
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-30
The Cambridge Companion To John Herschel written by Stephen Case 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 2024-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first-ever comprehensive account of John Herschel's life, work and legacy, shedding new light on the history of Victorian science.
Escaping Kakania
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Author : Jan Mrázek
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-30
Escaping Kakania written by Jan Mrázek and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with History categories.
Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European “semi-peripheral” (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers’ positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience. The travellers moved—as do the chapter authors—between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly “Eastern,” and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of “Europe,” “East,” and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, “races,” and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting/adapting/mimicking/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other—and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania.
Mapping Empires Colonial Cartographies Of Land And Sea
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Author : Alexander James Kent
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-26
Mapping Empires Colonial Cartographies Of Land And Sea written by Alexander James Kent and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-26 with Science categories.
This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme was ‘Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea’. The book presents a breadth of original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant contribution to the development of this growing field and to many interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.
Observers Of The Aurora Borealis In Europe
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Author : Eric Chassefiere
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-07-12
Observers Of The Aurora Borealis In Europe written by Eric Chassefiere and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-12 with Science categories.
The spectacular reappearance of the aurora borealis at the beginning of the 18th century, often observed simultaneously from different observatories in Europe, mobilized and federated a large community of astronomers on a European scale. It encouraged them to communicate the results of their observations and, in compiling exhaustive catalogs of information, has helped to establish a system of the aurora borealis that can be further studied in the future, according to the experimental method inherited from the previous century. This book is dedicated to some of the main aurora observers in Europe and to the human, institutional and philosophical context in which they evolved in the first half of the 18th century. Its reading should be seen as a retrospective journey through the scholarly world of the Enlightenment, during which the same scholars are frequently encountered and reencountered, yet each time in different contexts, or from different angles, with the aim of compiling an account of the swarming of ideas and encounters that constituted the development of experimental science in this pivotal period.
Michele Ruggieri S Tianzhu Shilu The True Record Of The Lord Of Heaven 1584
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-08-07
Michele Ruggieri S Tianzhu Shilu The True Record Of The Lord Of Heaven 1584 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-07 with History categories.
The True Record of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shilu, 1584) by the Jesuit missionary Michele Ruggieri was the first Chinese-language work ever published by a European. Despite being published only a few years after Ruggieri started learning Chinese, it evinced sophisticated strategies to accommodate Christianity to the Chinese context and was a pioneering work in Sino-Western exchange. This book features a critical edition of the Chinese and Latin texts, which are both translated into English for the first time. An introduction, biography, and rich annotations are provided to situate this text in its cultural and intellectual context.
C Dice Boxer El Etnograf A Colonial E Hibridismo Cultural En Las Islas Filipinas
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Author : Manel Ollé
language : es
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Release Date : 2019-11-30
C Dice Boxer El Etnograf A Colonial E Hibridismo Cultural En Las Islas Filipinas written by Manel Ollé and has been published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-30 with categories.
En 1950 Charles R. Boxer, antiguo espía británico y profesor de historia colonial portuguesa y holandesa, publicó un artículo donde describía un bello códice que él mismo había adquirido en una subasta. El hoy denominado Códice Boxer, creado bajo el gobierno de Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas (1590-1593) en la colonia española de Filipinas, es un documento absolutamente excepcional tanto por su contenido textual como por sus bellas ilustraciones en color, probablemente realizadas por un artista chino del parián de Manila. En sus páginas reúne veintidós jornadas, derroteros y, sobre todo, relaciones etnográficas de procedencia diversa, la mayoría escritos originalmente en castellano, y otros traducidos del portugués o del chino. Entre textos e imágenes, ofrece información sobre los pueblos nativos de Guam y Filipinas, el sudeste asiático (Borney, Maluku, Java, Aceh, Patani, Siam, Nueva Guinea), las costas de Champa y Vietnam, el norte de Formosa (Taiwán), Japón y China. El Códice, sin embargo, plantea innumerables interrogantes acerca de su autoría, su cronología precisa, sus finalidades y su carácter culturalmente híbrido. El presente libro reúne, por primera vez, diversos estudios con el objetivo de dar respuesta a todas estas cuestiones.
Les Observateurs D Aurores Bor Ales D Europe
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Author : Éric Chassefière
language : fr
Publisher: ISTE Group
Release Date : 2023-04-01
Les Observateurs D Aurores Bor Ales D Europe written by Éric Chassefière and has been published by ISTE Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-01 with Science categories.
Souvent observées simultanément depuis différents observatoires d’Europe, les aurores boréales font une réapparition spectaculaire au début du XVIIIe siècle, mobilisant et fédérant une large communauté d’astronomes à l’échelle européenne. Cet ouvrage présente quelques-uns parmi les plus remarquables de ces observateurs dans le contexte humain, institutionnel et philosophique dans lequel ils ont évolué. Il décrit la façon dont ils se sont constitués en réseau en vue d’établir un catalogue le plus exhaustif possible des observations réalisées, permettant l’établissement d’un système raisonné de l’aurore boréale, suivant la méthode expérimentale héritée du siècle précédent. Les observateurs d’aurores boréales d’Europe constitue un voyage rétrospectif à travers le monde savant des Lumières, offrant au lecteur de multiples occasions de rencontre, dans des contextes et suivant des angles variés, avec ces pionniers de la science aurorale, et lui dévoilant par la même occasion le fourmillement d’idées et d’échanges qu’a constitué le développement de la science expérimentale au cours de cette époque charnière de l’évolution de la pensée scientifique.
Horizonnen
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Author : James Poskett
language : nl
Publisher: Ambo|Anthos
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Horizonnen written by James Poskett and has been published by Ambo|Anthos this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with History categories.
Horizonnen van James Poskett is een eerbetoon aan de door de geschiedenis vergeten wetenschappers. Hij toont aan dat de geschiedenis van de wetenschap er een is van mondiale culturele uitwisseling. Menigeen denkt dat de moderne wetenschap zijn oorsprong in Europa vindt, met grote geesten als Copernicus, Newton, Darwin en Einstein. Maar de geschiedenis van de wetenschap was en is nooit een uitsluitend Europees avontuur geweest. Copernicus maakte gebruik van mathematische kennis uit Arabische en Perzische geschriften, Newtons bewegingswetten waren gebaseerd op astronomische waarnemingen uit Azië en Afrika. Voor zijn On the Origin of Species raadpleegde Darwin een zestiende-eeuwse Chinese encyclopedie en de Bengaalse natuurkundige Satyendra Nath Bose was Einsteins inspiratiebron voor zijn studie van de kwantummechanica. Horizonnen vertelt de geschiedenis van de wetenschap zoals die nog niet eerder werd verteld. Het toont aan dat de geschiedenis van de weten schap er een is van mondiale culturele uitwisseling. Horizonnen is een eerbetoon aan door de geschiedenis vergeten wetenschappers. We maken kennis met Graman Kwasi, de zeventiende-eeuwse Afrikaanse botanist die een medicijn tegen malaria ontdekte, Hantaro Nagaoka, de negentiende-eeuwse Japanse wetenschapper die de structuur van het atoom ontdekte, en Chung-Yao Cha, de twintigste-eeuwse Chinese natuurkundige die antimaterie ontdekte (terwijl een Amerikaanse collega er de Nobelprijs voor ontving). Over Horizonnen: ‘Geweldig. Het is hoog tijd dat we erop gewezen worden dat wetenschappelijke vooruitgang een Internationale aangelegenheid is.’ - Ian Stewart, auteur van Significant Figures ‘Dit boek is een ware schatkamer. Het toont helder en duidelijk aan dat wetenschap nooit uitsluitend een Europees avontuur was, maar bij uitstek het resultaat van interculturele uitwisseling.’ - Jim Al-Khalili, auteur van Hoe leven ontstaat ‘Fenomenaal. Trekt terecht alles wat we tot nu toe dachten over de ontwikkeling van wetenschap in twijfel.’ - Rebecca Wragg Sykes, auteur van Kindred