Book ID: CBB000773316

Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (2007)

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Schuchard, Margret (Editor)


Brill


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xii + 345 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description The story of a founder of the modern discipline of geography. Partial contents:


Includes Chapters

Chapter Vermij, Rienk (2007) Varenius and the World of Learning in the Dutch Republic. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 99). unapi

Chapter Düchting, Reinhard (2007) Die Descriptio Regni Japoniae in der literarischen Tradition der europäischen “descriptiones”. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 145). unapi

Chapter Blanke, Horst Walter (2007) Die Aneignung und Strukturierung von Wissen in der Polyhistorie. Ein Fallbeispiel: Bernhard Varenius. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 163). unapi

Chapter Staffhorst, Ulrich (2007) Miszellen zur Geographia Generalis des Bernhard Varenius. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 215). unapi

Chapter Schuchard, Margret (2007) Notes on Geographia Generalis and Its Introduction to England and North America. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 227). unapi

Chapter Rebok, Sandra (2007) The Influence of Bernhard Varenius in the Geographical Works of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander von Humboldt. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 259). unapi

Chapter Reichert, Folker (2007) Reise- und entdeckungsgeschichtliche Grundlagen der Descriptio regni Iaponiae. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 119). unapi

Chapter Richter, Frank (2007) Varenius -- ein Geograph zwischen allen Stühlen?. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 191). unapi

Chapter Mayhew, Robert J. (2007) From Hackwork to Classic: The English Editing of the Geographia Generalis. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 239). unapi

Chapter Shaw, Denis J. B. (2007) Bernhard Varenius' Geographia Generalis and the Rise of Modern Geographical Studies in Russia. In: Bernhard Varenius, 1622--1650 (p. 271). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Seaver, Kirsten A.
Cormack, Lesley B.
Giulia Iannuzzi
Winkler, Martina
Probasco, Nathan J.
Yamada, Toshihiro
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Science and Education
Rendiconti, Istituto Lombardo B
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Publishers
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Viella
Stanford University Press
Scarecrow Press
Ludicium
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Concepts
Geography
Travel; exploration
Mathematics
Maps; atlases
Scientific expeditions
Trade
People
Varen, Bernhard
Voznesenskii, Il'ia Gavrilovich
Nunes, Pedro
Newton, Isaac
Kepler, Johannes
Kaempfer, Engelbert
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
North America
England
Russia
Thailand
Greenland
London (England)
Institutions
Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
Oxford University
Cambridge University
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