@Book{1779290543,
author="Brentjes, Sonja",
title="Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid empires, 16th-17th centuries: seeking, transforming, discarding knowledge",
series="Variorum collected studies series CS961",
year="2016",
publisher="Routledge, Taylor {\&} Francis Group,",
address="Abingdon, Oxon",
keywords="Knowledge and learning; Europeans; History; Middle East; Learning and scholarship; Europe; Islamic learning and scholarship; Communication in learning and scholarship; Travelers' writings, European; History and criticism; Islam and science; Historiography; HISTORY / General; In literature",
abstract="The interests of the republic of letters in the middle east, 1550-1700 -- On the relation between the Ottoman Empire and the west European republic of letters (17th-18th centuries) -- The presence of ancient secular and religious texts in the unpublished and printed writings of Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) -- Pietro della Valle's Latin geography of Safavid Iran (1624-1628) : introduction (with Volkmar Sch{\"u}ller) -- Early modern western European travellers in the Middle East and their reports about the sciences -- Pride and prejudice : the invention of a 'historiography of science' in the Ottoman and Safavid empires by European travellers and writers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Peiresc's interests in the Middle East and northern Africa in respect to georgarhy and cartography -- Astronomy a temptation? : on early modern encounters across the Mediterranean Sea.",
note="Sonja Brentjes",
isbn="9781003097778",
url="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003097778",
language="English"
}