Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution Johnny M. Grace III

Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution Johnny M. Grace IIIThe 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

Thirteen essays

Here we present the traditional inorganic

and the role of New Zealand in the translation of words to images

This book presents analysis of faunal remains from the Taubachian

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The chapter includes a comparison of production costs by apple variety across the United States

The chapter also includes photographs of principal mango cultivars

in many languages to examine how slaves and ‘renegades’ developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the ‘others’ thought and acted

and IITA’s plans for the future are included

Relative estimates can use traps to catch insects

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Umayyad monuments and the iconographic significance of Muslim architecture