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The voyage of thought : navigating knowledge across the sixteenth-century world / Michael Wintroub.
Van Pelt Library G440.P216 W56 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wintroub, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parmentier, Jean, -1529.
- Parmentier, Jean.
- Voyages and travels--History--16th century.
- Voyages and travels.
- Scientific expeditions--History--16th century.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Discoveries in geography--French.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Explorers--France--Biography.
- Explorers.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examines an early attempt by the French to challenge Spanish and Portuguese oceanic hegemony and to carve out an empire in the Indies. He investigates the commercial, cultural, and religious lives of provincial humanists, including their relationship to the classical authorities they revered, the literary culture they cultivated, the techniques of oceanic navigation they pioneered, and the distant peoples with whom they came into contact. Ideal for graduate students and scholars, this journey into the history of science describes the manifold and often contradictory genealogies of the modern in the early modern world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of figures; Introduction; 1. Information: pilgrimage in a church of poems; 2. Expertise: the heavens inscribed; 3. Translation: translating the body of thought; 4. Scale: the heart of the matter; 5. Confidence: a balance of trust; 6. Replication: disciplining monsters; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107188235
- 1107188237
- OCLC:
- 980858461
- Publisher Number:
- 99973602810
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