Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid empires, 16th-17th centuries : seeking, transforming, discarding knowledge /: seeking, transforming, discarding knowledge. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sonja Brentjes.
• Authors: Brentjes, Sonja
• Contents: Contents: Preface; Introduction; The interests of the Republic of Letters in the Middle East, 1550-1700; On the relation between the Ottoman empire and the West European Republic of Letters (17th-18th centuries); The presence of ancient secular and religious texts in the unpublished and printed writings of Pietro della Valle (1586-1652); Pietro della Valle's Latin Geography of Safavid Iran (1624-1628): introduction (with Volkmar Schüller); Early modern Western European travellers in the Middle East and their reports about the sciences; Pride and prejudice: the invention of a 'historiography of science' in the Ottoman and Safavid empires by European travellers and writers of the 16th and 17th centuries; Peiresc's interests in the Middle East and Northern Africa in respect to geography and cartography; Astronomy a temptation? On early modern encounters across the Mediterranean sea; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.4824056; Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History; Islamic learning and scholarship -- History; Communication in learning and scholarship -- History; Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism; Islam and science -- Historiography; Europeans -- Middle East -- History -- 16th century; Europeans -- Middle East -- History -- 17th century; Middle East -- In literature; Knowledge -- Middle east
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000202809
• Related ISBNs: 9781000202663; 9781000202731; 9781003097778
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