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William K. Storey - Scientific Aspects of European Expansion, Inbunden

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Scientific Aspects of European Expansion

Av William K. Storey

Del i serien Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800

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Traditional models of the ’spread of Western science’, informing and colonising the world, are rejected in the papers included here. Presenting the most significant interpretative problems in its field, some chapters demonstrate that European states did indeed use science overseas as a way to increase their power and this interpretation can be applied even to the history of cartography; others show how Amerindian knowledge of geography contributed heavily to North American mapping. Examples of Ayurvedic and Arabic medical expertise with tropical diseases, Chinese astronomy and Ottoman science illustrate the cultural dimensions of scientific interactions: a two-way interchange took place in this period, with other cultures often rejecting major sections of the Western scientific and medical canon.
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William K. Storey, Harvard University, USA George Basalla, Roy MacLeod, Francisco de Solano, Alan Frost, Daniel A. Baugh, Daniel T. Reff, J. B. Harley, Sarah Tyacke, Helen Wallis, Louis De Vorsey, Malcolm G. Lewis, John M. de Figueiredo, Yabuuti Kiyosi, Joseph Needham, Catherine Jami, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.

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'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1

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