New worlds, ancient texts : the power of tradition and the shock of discovery

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New worlds, ancient texts : the power of tradition and the shock of discovery

Anthony Grafton with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-271) and index

"First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 1995" -- t.p. verso

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内容説明

Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.

目次

Foreword by Timothy Healy Introduction 1. A Bound World: The Scholar's Cosmos 2. Navigators and Conquerors: The Universe of the Practical Man 3. All Coherence Gone 4. Drugs and Diseases: New World Biology and Old World Learning 5. A New World of Learning Epilogue Notes Bibliography Illustration Sources Acknowledgments Index

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