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Bernhard Varenius: (1622 - 1650)

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This fresh portrait of Varenius presents a young German scholar, whose books on Japan (1649), the first one from a European perspective, and on General Geography (1650) were written and published in Amsterdam and led to establishing geography as a science.

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Other Authors: Schuchard, Margret (Editor)
Format: Conference Paper Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Boston BRILL 2014
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser. v.159
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser v.159
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Konferenzschrift
Geschichte
Geografie
Varenius, Bernhardus
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Author Notes:ed. by Margret Schuchard
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Summary:This fresh portrait of Varenius presents a young German scholar, whose books on Japan (1649), the first one from a European perspective, and on General Geography (1650) were written and published in Amsterdam and led to establishing geography as a science.
Prefatory Note / Vorbemerkung -- Chronological Table-The Life of Bernhard Varenius -- Bernhard Varenius-Family Background -- Bernhard Varenius-Stemma of Editions -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- I VARENIUS' FORMATIVE YEARS IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS TIME / VARENIUS IM BILDUNGSHORIZONT SEINER ZEIT -- Varenius and His Family: A Dynasty Dedicated to Scholarship and Rooted in Christian Philosophy (Margret Schuchard) -- Heinrich Varenius' Rettung von Johann Arndts Wahrem Christentum (Johann Anselm Steiger) -- Der Bildungsweg des jungen Bernhard Varenius (Klaus Lehmann) -- The Road to Authorship and Publications: Projects, Patronage and the Elzeviers (Margret Schuchard) -- Varenius and the World of Learning in the Dutch Republic (Rienk Vermij) -- II VARENIUS AS A TRANSMITTING AGENT OF KNOWLEDGE-JAPAN / VARENIUS ALS WISSENSVERMITTLER EINER FREMDEN WELT-JAPAN -- Reise- und entdeckungsgeschichtliche Grundlagen der Descriptio regni Iaponiae (Folker Reichert) -- Die Descriptio Regni Japoniae in der literarischen Tradition der europäischen ‚descriptiones' (Reinhard Düchting) -- Die Aneignung und Strukturierung von Wissen in der Polyhistorie. Ein Fallbeispiel: Bernhard Varenius (Horst Walter Blanke) -- III GEOGRAPHIA GENERALIS AND ITS LEGACY / DIE GEOGRAPHIA GENERALIS UND IHRE NACHWIRKUNGEN -- Varenius-ein Geograph zwischen allen Stühlen? (Frank Richter †) -- Miszellen zur Geographia Generalis des Bernhard Varenius (Ulrich Staffhorst) -- Notes on Geographia Generalis and Its Introduction to England and North America (Margret Schuchard) -- From Hackwork to Classic: The English Editing of the Geographia Generalis (Robert J. Mayhew) -- The Influence of Bernhard Varenius in the Geographical Works of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander von Humboldt (Sandra Rebok).
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ISBN:9789047432197

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