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Empires of Knowledge - Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)
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Empires of Knowledge - Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)
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Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of
scientific networks - local and long-distance, informal and
institutional, religious and secular - as one of the important
phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions
about what role these networks played in making knowledge, how
information traveled, how it was transformed by travel, and who the
brokers of this world were. Bringing together an international
group of historians of science and medicine, this book looks at the
changing relationship between knowledge and community in the early
modern period through case studies connecting Europe, Asia, the
Ottoman Empire, and the Americas. It explores a landscape of
understanding (and misunderstanding) nature through examinations of
well-known intelligencers such as overseas missions, trading
companies, and empires while incorporating more recent scholarship
on the many less prominent go-betweens, such as translators and
local experts, which made these networks of knowledge vibrant and
truly global institutions. Empires of Knowledge is the perfect
introduction to the global history of early modern science and
medicine.
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