This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of
motion and transformation of knowledge. It is unique in taking its
global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of
motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th
to the 18th century.
People living around the turn of the 17th century were
experiencing motion in ways beyond the grasp of anyone less than a
century earlier. Goods and people were crossing lands and oceans to
distances never envisioned and in scales hardly imaginable by their
recent predecessors. The earth itself has been set in motion and
the heavens were populated by a whole new array of moving objects:
comets, moons, sun spots. Even the motion of terrestrial objects-so
close at hand and seemingly obvious-was being thoroughly reshaped.
In the two centuries to follow, this incessant, world-changing
motion would transform the creation, interpretation and
dissemination of knowledge and the life and experiences of the
people producing it: savants, artisans, pilots, collectors. "
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