Cross-cultural scientific exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660
Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Through five meticulously researched case studies-in which he explores how a single obscure object or text move...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Incommensurable Cultures?
- 1. Trading Clocks, Globes, and Captives in the End Time
- 2. Exchanging Heliocentrism for Ur-Text
- 3. Transcending Time in the Scribal East
- 4. Converting Measurements and Invoking the "Linguistic Leviathan"
- 5. Exchanging Heavens and Hearts
- Conclusion: From "Incommensurablility of Cultures" to Mutually Embraced Zones