Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution

Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific RevolutionThe case studies in this volume juxtapose instances of knowledge exchange across a variety of fields usually studied in isolation: anthropology, medicine, botany, epigraphy, astronomy, geography, philosophy and chronology. In their letters, scientists and scholars tried to come to grips with the often unclear epistemological status of an observation, a term which covered a wide semantic field, ranging from acts of perceiving to generalized remarks on

examine the impact of globalization on the environment

The idea of the Celt and Celticism is once again highly fashionable

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The main pathogenic bacteria in poultry meat and eggs are Staphylococcus aureus

This guide recovers the various contexts that situate ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ in its time

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The degree of produce maturity and ripeness at harvest is also discussed

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proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeling and affect in literary texts

This memoir

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leaving its future uncertain