Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix (2013)
Friis, Ib (Editor)
Harbsmeier, Michael (Editor)
Simonsen, Jørgen Bæk (Editor)
Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Physical Details: 252 pp.; ill.
Language: English
The publisher writes: Rise to publish this book's 250-year anniversary of the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia in the years 1761 to 1767. The work consists of a preamble and 14 articles, written by various experts. They examine each new aspects of the Danish expedition methods and results. From the 1700s onwards did Europeans terrestrial scientific travel, and that meant more and longer meetings between locals and visitors researchers. A number of these meetings are discussed in the book. Other articles examine the scientific questions that expeditions and travelers were sent out to solve, and describes how the travelers brought their observations back to Europe and got them communicated to other researchers and the interested public. Participants in the Danish expedition to Arabia, especially Niebuhr and naturalist Forsskål, was characterized by respect for the locals, they met on their journey. It was no ordinary position at that time. Their methods of exploration of local knowledge marked something new in the study of foreign cultures and their interaction with nature.
...MoreReview Klaver, Jan Marten Ivo (2015) Review of "Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 722-723).
Chapter Friis, I.; Harsmeier, Michael; Simonsen, Jørgen Bæk (2013) Introduction. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Carey, Daniel (2013) Arts and Sciences of Travel, 1574-1762: The Arabian Journey and Michaelis's Fragen in Context. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Moller, Peter Ulf (2013) Long Transit to the Unknown: Bering and the Siberian Context. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Baack, Lawrence J. (2013) From Biblical Philology to Scientific Achievement and Cultural Understanding: Carsten Niebuhr, Peter Forsskal and Frederik Von Haven and the Transformation of the Danish Expedition to Arabia 1761-1767. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Hess, Jonathan M. (2013) Carsten Niebuhr, Johann David Michaelis, and the Politics of Orientalist Scholarship in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Harbsmeier, Michael (2013) Niebuhr's Method. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Povencal, Philippe (2013) On Forsskal's Work with the Gathering and Philological Treatment of Arabic Names for Plants and Animals. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Grichard, Roger H. (2013) Niebuhr in Egypt. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Hansen, Anne Haslund (2013) Niebuhr and the Visual Documentation of the Arabian Voyage, 1761-1767. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Detalle, Michel-Pierre; Detalle, Renaud (2013) Carsten Niebuhr's Reply to the French Academy: A Newly Discovered Memorandum from 1768. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Raudvere, Catharina (2013) The Pedagogical Virtues of Comparison: Jacob BjöRnstahl in Constantinople 1776-79. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Friis, Ib (2013) Travelling among Fellow Christians (1768-1833): James Bruce, Henry Salt and Eduard Rüppell in Abyssinia. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Withers, Charles W. J. (2013) Travel, Truth and Narrative in the Arabian Writings of James Wellsted (1805-1842). In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Liebersohn, Harry (2013) The Romance of Hawaii in William Ellis's “Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii, or Owhyhee”. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
Chapter Friis, Ib (2013) Lifted Latitudes and Virtual Voyages on the Red Sea?. In: Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters---New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and “The Arabian Journey”: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix.
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