Harold J. Cook – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Harold J. Cook. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
5 produkter
Young Descartes
Nobility, Rumor, and War
Inbunden, 2018
352 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am." But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of his time. Far from it. As a young nobleman, …
Matters of Exchange
Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
Häftad, 2008
827 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A new and unexpected history of the Dutch pursuit of commerce in the 16th and 17th centuries and how it triggered the Scientific RevolutionIn this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce—not …
Translation at Work
Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age
Inbunden, 2020
2338 kr
Lägg i varukorg
During the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and …
Ways of Making and Knowing – The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge
Av Pamela H. Smith, Amy R.w. Meyers m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
352 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, shows that the histories of science and art are not …
Global Movements, Local Concerns
Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia
Av Laurence Monnais, Harold J. Cook
Häftad, 2012
338 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The …
