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Grafton, Anthony [en col·lab. amb:] Shelford, April - Siraisi, Nancy G., New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1992, x + 282 pp.
- Resum
- 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. What Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, 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 notions of the world beyond Europe.
As part of its commemoration of the quincentenary of Columbus' voyage, the New York Public Library invited Grafton (history, Princeton) to explore its extensive archives on 16th- and 17th-century European thought, and to organize an exhibition and write a book tracing the transforming effects of the voyages of exploration upon European scholarship, learning, and culture from 1450 to 1700. Elegantly produced in an 8.25 x 9.5" format, with wide margins and black & white reproductions of book illustrations.
Contents:
* Introduction 1
* 1. A Bound World: The Scholar's Cosmos 11
* 2. Navigators and Conquerors: The Universe of the Practical Man 59
* 3. All Coherence Gone 95
* 4. Drugs and Diseases: New World Biology and Old World Learning 159
* 5. A New World of Learning 195
* Epilogue 253
- Matèries
- Història de la ciència
Geografia i viatges
Història de la medicina
- Notes
- Reimpr.: 1995.
- URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=APVWL5avg7oC&lpg=P ...
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