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New worlds, ancient texts: the power of tradition and the shock of discovery

Anthony Grafton, April Shelford and Nancy G. Siraisi
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword by Timothy Healy (page vii)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 A Bound World: The Scholar's Cosmos (page 11)
  • 2 Navigators and Conquerors: The Universe of the Practical Man (page 59)
  • 3 All Coherence Gone (page 95)
  • 4 Drugs and Diseases: New World Biology and Old World Learning (page 159)
  • 5 A New World of Learning (page 195)
  • Epilogue (page 253)
  • Notes (page 259)
  • Bibliography (page 263)
  • Illustration Sources (page 273)
  • Acknowledgments (page 275)
  • Index (page 279)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 80.1 (Jun. 1993): 187-192 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199306%2980%3A1%3C187%3A%22WATTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
RQ 47.4 (Winter 1994): 954-955 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-4338%28199424%2947%3A4%3C954%3ANWATTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
HAHR 74.4 (Nov. 1994): 716-717 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2168%28199411%2974%3A4%3C716%3ANWATTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
SCJ 25.2 (Summer 1994): 412-413 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-0160%28199422%2925%3A2%3C412%3ANWATTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
JAH 81.1 (Jun. 1994): 233-234 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199406%2981%3A1%3C233%3ANWATTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
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Published: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright Holder: The President and Fellows of Harvard College
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674618756 (hardcover)
  • 9780674618763 (paper)
Subject
  • European: 1400-1800
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