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Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801899928
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660DDC classification:
  • 509.182/209031
LOC classification:
  • Q127.M38 B46 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. Incommensurable Cultures? -- 1 Trading Clocks, Globes, and Captives in the End Time -- 2 Exchanging Heliocentrism for Ur-Text -- 3 Transcending Time in the Scribal East -- 4 Converting Measurements and Invoking the "Linguistic Leviathan -- 5 Exchanging Heavens and Hearts -- CONCLUTION. From "Incommensurability of Cultures" to Mutually Embraced Zones -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: His findings reshape our understanding of scientific discourse in this critical period and contribute to the growing field of cross-cultural Christian-Muslim studies.
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Intro -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. Incommensurable Cultures? -- 1 Trading Clocks, Globes, and Captives in the End Time -- 2 Exchanging Heliocentrism for Ur-Text -- 3 Transcending Time in the Scribal East -- 4 Converting Measurements and Invoking the "Linguistic Leviathan -- 5 Exchanging Heavens and Hearts -- CONCLUTION. From "Incommensurability of Cultures" to Mutually Embraced Zones -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

His findings reshape our understanding of scientific discourse in this critical period and contribute to the growing field of cross-cultural Christian-Muslim studies.

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