TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ben-Zaken,Avner
TI  - Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660
SN  - 9780801899928
AV  - Q127.M38 B46 2010 
U1  - 509.182/209031 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Science-Mediterranean Region-History-16th century
KW  - Science-Mediterranean Region-History-17th century
KW  - Cultural relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -