%0 Book
%T Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid empires, 16th-17th centuries: seeking, transforming, discarding knowledge
%A Brentjes, Sonja
%S Variorum collected studies series CS961
%D 2016
%I Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
%C Abingdon, Oxon
%@ 9781003097778
%G English
%F 1779290543
%O Sonja Brentjes
%X 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west European republic of letters (17th-18th centuries) -- The presence of ancient secular and religious texts in the unpublished and printed writings of Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) -- Pietro della Valle's Latin geography of Safavid Iran (1624-1628) : introduction (with Volkmar Schüller) -- 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.
%K Knowledge and learning
%K Europeans
%K History
%K Middle East
%K Learning and scholarship
%K Europe
%K Islamic learning and scholarship
%K Communication in learning and scholarship
%K Travelers' writings, European
%K History and criticism
%K Islam and science
%K Historiography
%K HISTORY / General
%K In literature
%9 Text
%U https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003097778