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37 produkter
Possessing Nature
Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 1996
305 kr
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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of …
Trading at the Edge of Empires
Francesco Carletti's World, c. 1600
Av Brian Brege, Paula Findlen m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
390 kr
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In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Florentine Francesco Carletti became the first European merchant to leave an account of travel on existing commercial routes. A repentant ex-slave trader and smuggler turned dealer in Chinese goods, Carletti …
Athanasius Kircher
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Häftad, 2004
637 kr
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First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt …
Reading Galileo's Letters
Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community
Av Paula Findlen, Hannah Marcus
Inbunden, 2027
1012 kr
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Essays by many of the foremost experts on Galileo offer an interdisciplinary approach to the legendary scientist’s correspondence.The Tuscan mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is one of history’s most iconic and controversial figures. Letters form the backbone of …
Reading Galileo's Letters
Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community
Av Paula Findlen, Hannah Marcus
Häftad, 2027
357 kr
Kommande
Essays by many of the foremost experts on Galileo offer an interdisciplinary approach to the legendary scientist’s correspondence.The Tuscan mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is one of history’s most iconic and controversial figures. Letters form the backbone of …
Florence After the Medici
Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
Av Corey Tazzara, Paula Findlen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2581 kr
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Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane’s Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973). It is high time …
Merchants and Marvels
Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
Av Pamela Smith, Paula Findlen
Inbunden, 2001
2581 kr
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The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and …
Merchants and Marvels
Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
Av Pamela Smith, Paula Findlen
Häftad, 2001
755 kr
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The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and …
Athanasius Kircher
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Inbunden, 2004
3015 kr
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First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt …
Renaissance of Letters
Knowledge and Community in Italy, 1300-1650
Av Suzanne Sutherland, Paula Findlen
E-bok, 2019
678 kr
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The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains …
Renaissance of Letters
Knowledge and Community in Italy, 1300-1650
Av Suzanne Sutherland, Paula Findlen
E-bok, 2019
678 kr
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The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains …
Empires of Knowledge
Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World
E-bok, 2018
785 kr
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Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions about what role these networks played in …
Empires of Knowledge
Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World
E-bok, 2018
785 kr
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Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions about what role these networks played in …
Possessing Nature
Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
E-bok, 1994
518 kr
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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of …
Italian Renaissance
The Essential Readings
Av Findlen, Paula Findlen
Inbunden, 2002
1761 kr
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Thirteen of the most important critical essays on the Italian Renaissance are brought together in this volume. Brings together critical essays on the Italian Renaissance.Provides an ideal starting point for non-specialists studying this period.Includes new research as well as classic …
Italian Renaissance
The Essential Readings
Av Findlen, Paula Findlen
Häftad, 2002
524 kr
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Thirteen of the most important critical essays on the Italian Renaissance are brought together in this volume. Brings together critical essays on the Italian Renaissance.Provides an ideal starting point for non-specialists studying this period.Includes new research as well as classic …
Beyond Florence
The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Av Paula Findlen, Michelle M. Fontaine m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
397 kr
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For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence—as a city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond the "Florentine model" to explore the …
Italy's Eighteenth Century
Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour
Av Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
873 kr
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In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock …
Italy's Eighteenth Century
Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour
Av Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
999 kr
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In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock …
Florence After the Medici
Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
Av Jacob Soll, Paula Findlen m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
767 kr
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Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane’s Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973). It is high time …
Florence After the Medici
Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
Av Jacob Soll, Paula Findlen m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
767 kr
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Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane’s Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973). It is high time …
Florence After the Medici
Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
Av Corey Tazzara, Paula Findlen m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
728 kr
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Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane’s Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973). It is high time …
Merchants and Marvels
Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
Av Paula Findlen, Pamela Smith
E-bok, 2013
892 kr
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The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and …
Merchants and Marvels
Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
Av Paula Findlen, Pamela Smith
E-bok, 2013
873 kr
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The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and …
Athanasius Kircher
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
E-bok, 2004
717 kr
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First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt …
Athanasius Kircher
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
E-bok, 2004
717 kr
Lägg i varukorg
First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt …
Empires of Knowledge
Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World
Inbunden, 2018
2820 kr
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Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions about what role these networks played in …
Empires of Knowledge
Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World
Häftad, 2018
665 kr
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Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions about what role these networks played in …
Renaissance of Letters
Knowledge and Community in Italy, 1300-1650
Av Paula Findlen, Suzanne Sutherland
Inbunden, 2019
2200 kr
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The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance.This edited collection contains …
Renaissance of Letters
Knowledge and Community in Italy, 1300-1650
Av Paula Findlen, Suzanne Sutherland
Häftad, 2019
578 kr
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The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance.This edited collection contains …
