Science and empire in the Atlantic world

"Science and Empire in the Atlantic World" is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single ...

Firearms

a global history to 1700

This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was ...

Galileo cortesano

la práctica de la ciencia en la cultura del absolutismo

Galileo comienza su carrera como integrante de una cultura socioprofesional específica: la de los matemáticos. Sin embargo, cuando se instala en la corte de los Medici logra recrear su identidad para pasar a ser una especie atípica de filósofo, que en el momento no tiene ...

Galilée et Kepler

philosophie, cosmologie et théologie à l'époque de la contre-réforme

Nous sommes dans les dernières années du seizième siècle ; une nouvelle époque, plus dure, s'ouvre pour la culture européenne. Une infime minorité de philosophes et de mathématiciens a entrepris de jeter les fondements d'une nouvelle constitution de l'univers. La genèse de cette ...

Arte de la guerra, ó maximas, é instrucciones del arte militar

Ed., facs. Aumentado con un tratado de minas, y tablas para las provisiones de las Plazas de Guerra Charles Sevin, Marqués de Quincy (1666-1736), brigadier de armas del monarca francés Luis XIV, se distingue a lo largo de su vida en numerosas batallas, obteniendo el ...

Newton

a very short introduction

This Very Short Introduction uses Newton's own unpublished writings to provide fascinating insight into the man who kept the Royal Society under his thumb, was Head of the Mint, and whose contributions to our understanding of the heavens and the earth are considered by ...

Beyond the gymnasium

educating the middle-class bodies in classical Germany

This book is the first systematic effort to examine the history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical dietetics, walking, dancing, gymnastics, cholera, and class rooms, it reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a source of political and social autonomy and ...

The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster

describing the world in the Reformation

Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographia" was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. First published in 1544, it went through thirty-five editions and was published ...

La Corse, la Méditerranée et les grands arsenaux européens du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle

hutièmes Journées Universitaires de Bonifacio

The printing revolution in early modern Europe

Although the importance of the advent of printing for the Western world has long been recognized, it was Elizabeth Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated and abridged ...

Transmitting knowledge

Words, images and instruments in Early Modern Europe.

Based on new research, a distinguished international team studies the forms in which scientific knowledge was transmitted in the late medieval and early modern period, the ways they interacted, and the people to whom the knowledge was directed. Among the famous authors whose work is ...

Universidades clásicas de la Europa mediterránea

Bolonia, Coimbra y Alcalá. Miscelánea Alfonso IX, 2005

INDICE: Preámbulo. XII Coloquios Alfonso IX: Universidades clásicas de la Europa mediterránea: Bolonia, Coimbra y Alcalá. Líneas de investigación. Centro de Historia Universitaria Alfonso IX.

Retrying Galileo

1633-1992

Stampa e cultura in Europa tra XV e XVI secolo

Le trasformazioni del libro e della lettura come aspetti essenziali della nascita della cultura moderna.

The scientific revolution and the foundations of modern science

Historire culturelle de la France

2: De la Renaissance à l'aube des Lumières

Viaggi e scienza

le intruzioni scientifiche per i viaggiatori nei secoli XVII-XIX

#Le istruzioni scientifiche per i viaggiatori sono parte essenziale della sistematica ricognizione della terra tra il XVII e il XIX secolo. Tramite le loro prescrizioni si cerca di disciplinare e stimolare, sia nell#esplorazione extraeuropea sia nell#indagine sulle aree interne al continente europeo, l ...

Le livre maritime au siècle des Lumières

édition et diffusion des connaissances maritimes (1750-1850)

L'histoire du livre, domaine de réflexion récent, ne s'est jusqu'à présent pas intéressée à la masse considérable des ouvrages techniques, savants, professionnels ou d'usage quotidien qui a suscité depuis les origines de l'imprimerie l'aventure maritime. Marchands, pêcheurs ou militaires ...

Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800

a source book

Le système du monde

Pierre Simon Laplace un itinéraire dans la science