The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge Across the Sixteenth-Century World

ISBN-13: 9781107188235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 302 str.

Michael Wintroub

Opis

A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.

Recenzje

'Part of the originality of The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World lies in Wintroub's ability to move with ease between disciplines - historical, philosophical, and literary … Wintroub's erudite book repays careful reading.' Pamela O. Long, Isis

Spis treści

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.