New Worlds, Ancient Texts by Anthony Grafton

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New Worlds, Ancient Texts by Anthony Grafton

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Zusammenfassung

Charts the experiences of travellers to the New World and their effect on Western culture. Grafton shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts and creating a cultural revolution that still reverberates in the 1990s.

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New Worlds, Ancient Texts by Anthony Grafton

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 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.

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SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780674618756
ISBN 10 0674618750
Titel New Worlds, Ancient Texts
Autor Anthony Grafton
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 1992-10-01
Seitenanzahl 294
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