Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution (Paperback)

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Verlag: University of London, 2013

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Paperback. The case studies in this volume juxtapose instances of knowledge exchange across a variety of fields usually studied in isolation: anthropology, medicine, botany, epigraphy, astronomy, geography, philosophy and chronology. In their letters, scientists and scholars tried to come to grips with the often unclear epistemological status of an observation, a term which covered a wide semantic field, ranging from acts of perceiving to generalized remarks on knowledge. Observations were associated with descriptions, transcriptions, copies, drawings, casts and coordinates, and they frequently took into account the natural, material, linguistic, historical, religious and social contexts. Early modern scholars were well aware of the transformations which knowledge could undergo in the process of being communicated and therefore stressed the need for autopsy, implying faithfulness (fides) and diligence (diligentia), to enhance the authority of observations. It was the specific character of Renaissance epistolography, more than the individual subjects discussed, which shaped the way information circulated. In the course of a correspondence, the narrative in which observations were communicated could be modified by adding implicit or explicit considerations and by relegating lists, drawings or tables containing raw material to appendices, which recipients more often than not detached and filed separately. While letters were the prime medium for exchanging information, they have to be studied in relation to notebooks, drafts, attachments and printed works in order to appreciate fully how observations were communicated within the learned networks of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Contents IntroductionDirk van MiertGerhard HolkThe First Anthropologist of America: Petrus Martyr de Angleria (14571526) and his Epistolary Reports De orbe novo decades octoCandice Delisle The Spices of Our Art. Medical Observation in Conrad Gessners LettersFlorike EgmondObserving Nature. The Correspondence Network of Carolus Clusius (15261609)Monumental Letters in the Late RenaissanceWilliam StenhouseDirk van MiertPhilology and Empiricism: Observation and Description in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (15401609)Adam MosleyReading the Heavens: Observation and Interpretation of Astronomical Phenomena in Learned Letters circa 1600Peter N. MillerMapping Peirescs Mediterranean: Geography and Astronomy, 161036Erik-Jan Bos and Theo VerbeekConceiving the Invisible. The Role of Observation and Experiment in Descartess Correspondence, 163050 The case studies in this volume juxtapose instances of knowledge exchange across a variety of fields usually studied in isolation: anthropology, medicine, botany, epigraphy, astronomy, geography, philosophy and chronology. In their letters, scientists and scholars tried to come to grips with the often unclear epistemological status of an 'observa Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Titel
Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
Autor
Dirk Miert
Verlag
University of London
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1908590467
ISBN-13
9781908590466

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