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4) The worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age: comparative approaches
Series
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Series
Brill's companions to the Christian tradition volume Volume 88
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"By the dawn of the 19th century, the Netherlands had established colonies and trading posts across Asia and the rest of the world, linking them directly to international networks of intellectual exchange and production. Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Albert Einstein. Who among us hasn't read Hamlet, listened to the Fifth Symphony, gazed at the Mona Lisa, or marveled at the three laws of physics and the Theory of Relativity and been struck with the same simple question:...
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This volume seeks to radically revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades and which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute substantially to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process, produced in historically specific, and changing, social and intellectual contexts,...