The voyage of thought navigating knowledge across the sixteenth-century world
The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examin...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of figures; Introduction; 1. Information: pilgrimage in a church of poems; 2. Expertise: the heavens inscribed; 3. Translation: translating the body of thought; 4. Scale: the heart of the matter; 5. Confidence: a balance of trust; 6. Replication: disciplining monsters; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index