Editors:
- First book on early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge
- Provides crucial historical depth to the topic of globalization and its intellectual effects
- Comprises studies by leading international scholars from an array fields and cultures
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 30)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dialogues and Skeptics—Traversing Geography and Cultures
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Motion as Free Thinking and Social Circulation
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge. It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the 18th century.
People living around the turn of the 17th century were experiencing motion in ways beyond the grasp of anyone less than a century earlier. Goods and people were crossing lands and oceans to distances never envisioned and in scales hardly imaginable by their recent predecessors. The earth itself has been set in motion and the heavens were populated by a whole new array of moving objects: comets, moons, sun spots. Even the motion of terrestrial objects—so close at hand and seemingly obvious—was being thoroughly reshaped. In the two centuries to follow, this incessant, world-changing motion would transform the creation, interpretation and dissemination of knowledge and the life and experiences of the people producing it: savants, artisans, pilots, collectors.
Editors and Affiliations
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Unit for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Ofer Gal
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Chinese Studies, School of Humanities and Languages, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Yi Zheng
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World
Book Subtitle: Orbits, Routes and Vessels
Editors: Ofer Gal, Yi Zheng
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7383-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7382-0Published: 22 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7921-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7383-7Published: 08 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 191
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour