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1 online resource |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Information: Pilgrimage in a Church of Poems; Spies, Maps and Facts; A Petit-Monde; Le Petit Monde and the Ocean Seas; Saint-Jacques and the World; Pilgrimage Architecture; Chains of Being and Chains of Words; The Presence of the Word: Ango Peregrino; Archives and Savages; Ships of Stone; The Poetry of Ships; 2 Expertise: The Heavens Inscribed; A Poetic Astrolabe; A Computer of Brass; Navigating an Audience; Knights of Inscription; Translations. |
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3 Translation: Translating the Body of ThoughtVoyages and Conjurations; The Mind and the Body of Thought; Germs and Money; New Men: Then and Now; A Sacred Thought; Crossing Frontiers; Cartographies of the Body and Maps for the Mind; Bodies and Minds; 4 Scale: The Heart of the Matter; Expert Territory: Words and Things; Bodily Grammars; Anatomy of the Heart; Sursum corda: Lift up our Hearts Together; Concordia: The Heart and the Thought of Man; 5 Confidence: A Balance of Trust; A Kid and a Posse; Anchors Aweigh; Malagasy Interludes; Beyond the Islands of Fear: Where Am I Redux. |
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Ticou France et France TicouThe Captain and the Harbor Master; A Balanced Thought; Between Balance and Incommensurability; Tipping the Scales; 6 Replication: Replicating a Thought; The Scales of Death; Consultations; A Last Chance; A Poet's Lament and the Narrative Redemption of a Journey; The Death of a Poet; The Mapping of Silence; A Great Captain Speaks; Halting Replication; Drifting Names; The Discovery of the Age of Discovery, or New Uses for Old Names; Epilogue: Pirate Epistemologies; Bibliography; Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Parmentier, Jean, -1529.
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Parmentier, Jean, -1529. |
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Voyages and travels -- History -- 16th century.
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Voyages and travels. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
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Scientific expeditions -- History -- 16th century.
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Discoveries in geography -- French.
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Scientific expeditions. |
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Explorers -- France -- Biography.
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Explorers. |
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France. |
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Discoveries in geography -- French. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- History. |
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Biographies.
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1500-1599 |
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History.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Wintroub, Michael. Voyage of thought. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107188235 1107188237 (DLC) 2017008195 (OCoLC)980858461 |
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9781316993576 (electronic book) |
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1316993574 (electronic book) |
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131699421X |
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9781316994214 |
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9781316994535 |
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1316994538 |
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9781107188235 (hardback) |
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1107188237 (hardback) |
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