Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World: Orbits, Routes and Vessels: 30 (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science)

by Yi Zheng (Editor), Ofer Gal (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $145.05

  It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the 18th century.People living around the turn of the 17th century were experiencing motion in ways beyond the grasp of anyone less than a century earlier.