Book ID: CBB000070201

Scientific aspects of European expansion (1996)

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Storey, William Kelleher (Editor)


Variorum


Publication Date: 1996
Physical Details: xxi + 339 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Facsimile reprints of previously published papers. Contents: Basalla, George: The spread of western science. ROY MacLEOD: On visiting the “moving metropolis”: Reflections on the architecture of imperial science. Solano, Francisco de: Viajes, comisiones y expediciones científícas espanñolas a ultramar durante el siglo XVIII. Frost, Alan: Science for political purposes: European explorations of the Pacific Ocean, 1764-1806. Baugh, Daniel A.: Seapower and science: The motives for Pacific exploration. Reff, Daniel T.: Anthropological analysis of exploration texts: Cultural discourse and the ethnological import of Fray Marcos de Niza's journey to Cibola. Harley, J.B.: Silences and secrets: The hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe. Tyacke, Sarah: English charting of the River Amazon c. 1595-c. 1630. Wallis, Helen: The influence of Father Ricci on Far Eastern cartography. De Vorsey, Louis: Amerindian contributions to the mapping of North America: A preliminary view. Lewis, G. Malcolm: Indicators of unacknowledged assimilations from Amerindian maps on Euro-American maps of North America: Some general principles arising from the study of La Vérendrye's composite map, 1728-29. Figueiredo, John M. de: Ayurvedic medicine in Goa according to the European sources in the 16th and 17th centuries. Kiyosi, Yabuuti: The pre-history of modern science in Japan: The importation of western science during the Tokugawa period. Needham, Joseph: Chinese astronomy and the Jesuit mission: An encounter of cultures. Jami, Catherine: Western mathematics in China, 17th century and 19th century. Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin: Ottomans and European science.


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Review Inkster, I. (1997) Review of "Scientific aspects of European expansion". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 611-22). unapi

Review Osborne, M.A. (1998) Review of "Scientific aspects of European expansion". Journal of World History (pp. 288-90). unapi

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