Early scientific expeditions and local encounters - new perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and the "The Arabian journey"
Subtitle: proceedings of a symposium on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia Felix
By: editors: Jørgen Bæk Simonsen, Ib Friis, Michael Harbsmeier
Contributors: Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia (1761-1767)
Series: Scientia danica. Series H, Humanistica 4 -- 2; Scientia Danica -- v. 2.
Publisher: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9788773043752
Subjects: Congresses; Description and travel; Travel; Explorers; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ib Friis, Michael Harsmeier and Jørgen Bæk Simonsen; title: Arts and sciences of travel, 1574-1762: the Arabian Journey and Michaelis's Fragen in context / Daniel Carey; title: Long transit to the unknown: Bering and the Siberian context / Peter Ulf Møller; title: From biblical philology to scientific achievement and cultural understanding: Carsten Niebuhr, Peter Forsskål and Frederik von Haven and the Transformation of the Danish Expedition to Arabia 1761-1767 / Lawrence J. Baack; title: Carsten Niebuhr, Johann David Michaelis, and the politics of orientalist scholarship in late eighteenth-century Germany / Jonathan M. Hess; title: Niebuhr's method / Michael Harbsmeier; title: On Forsskål's work with the gathering and philological treatment of Arabic names for plants and animals / Philippe Povenc̦al; title: Niebuhr in Egypt / Roger H. Grichard; title: Niebuhr and the visual documentation of the Arabian Voyage, 1761-1767 / Anne Haslund Hansen; title: Carsten Niebuhr's reply to the French Academy: a newly discovered memorandum from 1768 / Michel-Pierre Detalle and Renaud Detalle; title: The pedagogical virtues of comparison: Jacob Björnståhl in Constantinople 1776-79 / Catharina Raudvere; title: Travelling among fellow Christians (1768-1833): James Bruce, Henry Salt and Eduard Rüppell in Abyssinia /Ib Friis; title: Travel, truth and narrative in the Arabian writings of James Wellsted (1805-1842) / Charles W.J. Withers; title: The romance of Hawaii in William Ellis's "Narrative of a tour through Hawaii, or Owhyhee" / Harry Liebersohn; title: Lifted latitudes and virtual voyages on the Red Sea? / Ib Friis.