Voyage of Thought - Navigating Knowledge Across the Sixteenth-Century World

A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Michael Wintroub is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He authored A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity and Knowledge in Early Modern France (2005) and has published widely in journals such as the American Historical Review, the British Journal for the History of Science, ISIS, the Renaissance Quarterly, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociale, and the Sixteenth Century Journal. Wintroub has received numerous awards and honours, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the Sixteenth Century Society, where he is a two-time winner of the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize.

Summary

Wintroub presents 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. He explores the shifting and interpenetrating religious, epistemic, and technical practices employed on the voyage.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Wintroub, Michael (University of California Wintroub, Wintroub Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107188235
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18823-5
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of Science, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600