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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 17 th 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. §

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World
• Subtitle: Orbits, Routes and Vessels
• Author: Ofer Gal, Yi Zheng
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 191
• EAN: 9789400773820
• ISBN: 940077382X
• ID: 02009194
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 159 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. November 2013

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