Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World [electronic resource] : Orbits, Routes and Vessels /
Gal, Ofer.lateditor.
Zheng, Yi.editor.
This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge. It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the 18th century. People living around the turn of the 17th century were experiencing motion in ways beyond the grasp of anyone less than a century earlier. Goods and people were crossing lands and oceans to distances never envisioned and in scales hardly imaginable by their recent predecessors.  The earth itself has been set in motion and the heavens were populated by a whole new array of moving objects: comets, moons, sun spots.  Even the motion of terrestrial objects—so close at hand and seemingly obvious—was being thoroughly reshaped. In the two centuries to follow, this incessant, world-changing motion would transform the creation, interpretation and dissemination of knowledge and the life and experiences of the people producing it: savants, artisans, pilots, collectors. .
Description based upon print version of record.
""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Chapter 1: Global Motion and the Production of Knowledge""; ""1.1 Motion""; ""1.2 Knowledge""; ""1.3 History""; ""1.4 The Collection""; ""1.4.1 Part I. The Savant in Motion and at Home""; ""1.4.2 Part II. Dialogues and Skeptics â€? Traversing Geography and Cultures""; ""1.4.3 Part III. Motion as Free Thinking and Social Circulation""; ""References""; ""Part I: The Savant in Motion and at Home""; ""Chapter 2: Two Bohemian Journeys: Real, Imaginary and Idealized Voyages at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century""; ""2.1 Introduction""
""2.2 The Journeys""""2.3 Motion Per Se""; ""2.4 Galileo on Travel and Pure Motion""; ""2.5 Perspectives""; ""2.6 Practical Mathematics""; ""2.7 Fear and Witchcraft""; ""2.8 The World of Motion""; ""2.9 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Xu Xiake's Travel Notes: Motion, Records and Genre Change""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 The Persona""; ""3.3 The Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Those Who Stayed: English Chorography and the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 The Geography of Knowledge""; ""4.3 The Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries""
""4.4 â€œDivers Gentlemen in London, Studious of Antiquitiesâ€?: The Fellows""""4.5 â€œStudious of Antiquitiesâ€?: Their Activities""; ""4.6 â€œThat Sweet Name of Englandâ€?: The Motivation""; ""4.7 â€œEvidences, Lawes, and Deedesâ€?: Access to Authority, Access to Power""; ""4.8 Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Part II: Dialogues and Skepticsâ€?Traversing Geography and Cultures""; ""Chapter 5: `How Very Little He Can Learn': Exotic Visitors and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge in Eighteenth Century London""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Substitution""; ""5.3 Fluency""
""5.4 Performance""""5.5 Disappointment""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Diplomatic Journeys and Medical Brush Talks: Eighteenth-Century Dialogues Between Korean and Japanese Medicine""; ""6.1 Introduction""; ""6.2 Chinese Medicine, Korean Medicine and Japanese Medicine""; ""6.3 Brush Talks in the Transmission of Medical Learning""; ""6.4 Ginseng""; ""6.5 Communication, Confrontation and Cultural Conflict""; ""6.6 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 7: The Circulation of Sericulture Knowledge through Temple Networks and Cognitive Poetics in Eighteenth Century Zhejiang""
""7.1 From the Court to the Countryside""""7.2 Rural Silkworm Festivals""; ""7.3 Urbanization of Silkworm Worship and Establishment of Temples""; ""7.4 The Cognitive Poetics of Sericulture Folksongs""; ""7.5 Washing and Preparing the Silkworm Eggs""; ""7.6 Stages of Feeding and Sleeping""; ""7.7 Sickness and Pollution""; ""7.8 Maturation and Celebration""; ""7.9 The Use of Popular Religious Songs in the Dissemination of Sericulture Innovations""; ""7.10 Conclusion""; ""Appendix A: Time Distribution and Patronage of Sericulture Fairs and Temples Prior to Qianlong Reign""
""Appendix B: Time Distribution and Patronage of Sericulture Fairs and Temples from Qianlong Reign Onwards""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge. It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the 18th century. People living around the turn of the 17th century were experiencing motion in ways beyond the grasp of anyone less than a century earlier. Goods and people were crossing lands and oceans to distances never envisioned and in scales hardly imaginable by their recent predecessors.  The earth itself has been set in motion and the heavens were populated by a whole new array of moving objects: comets, moons, sun spots.  Even the motion of terrestrial objects—so close at hand and seemingly obvious—was being thoroughly reshaped. In the two centuries to follow, this incessant, world-changing motion would transform the creation, interpretation and dissemination of knowledge and the life and experiences of the people producing it: savants, artisans, pilots, collectors. .
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