Wintroub, Michael. The voyage of thought : navigating knowledge across the sixteenth-century world

Folger bibliographic ID: 352894
Folger call number: G440.P216 W56 2017
Folger holdings ID: 501427

"The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examines an early attempt by the French to challenge Spanish and Portuguese oceanic hegemony and to carve out an empire in the Indies. He investigates the commercial, cultural, and religious lives of provincial humanists, including their relationship to the classical authorities they revered, the literary culture they cultivated, the techniques of oceanic navigation they pioneered, and the distant peoples with whom they came into contact. Ideal for graduate students and scholars, this journey into the history of science describes the manifold and often contradictory genealogies of the modern in the early modern world"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-282) and index

Contents

Introduction -- Information : pilgrimage in a church of poems -- Expertise : the heavens inscribed -- Translation : translating the body of thought -- Scale : the heart of the matter -- Confidence : a balance of trust -- Replication : replicating a thought -- Epilogue : pirate epistemologies

Extended title: The voyage of thought : navigating knowledge across the sixteenth-century world / Michael Wintroub

Parmentier, Jean, -1529 Voyages and travels Scientific expeditions Discoveries in geography Explorers TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History France

author: Wintroub, Michael
subject: Parmentier, Jean, -1529