| ISBN |
1409405338 (hbk.) |
| 9781409405337 (hbk.) |
| Author |
Brentjes, Sonja |
| Title |
Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid empires, 16th-17th centuries : seeking, transforming, discarding knowledge / [by] Sonja Brentjes |
| Publisher |
Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, 2010 |
| Physical desc. |
1 v. (various pagings) ; ill. (b&w) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Collected studies 961 |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- The interests of the republic of letters in the Middle East, 1550-1700 -- On the relation between the Ottoman Empire and the west European republic of letters (17th-18th centuries) -- The presence of ancient secular and religious texts in the unpublished and printed writings of Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) -- Pietro della Valle's Latin geography of Safavid Iran (1624-1628): introduction (with Volkmar Shüller) -- Early modern western European travellers in the Middle East and their reports about the sciences -- Pride and prejudice: the invention of a 'historiography of science' in the Ottoman and Safavid empires by European travellers and writers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Peiresc's interests in the Middle East and northern Africa in respect to geography and cartography -- Astronomy a temptation? on early modern encounters across the Mediterranean Sea. |
| Person as subject |
Della Valle, Pietro -- 1586-1652 |
| Subject |
Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History |
| Islamic learning and scholarship |
| Communication in learning and scholarship -- History |
| Travelers’ writings, European -- History and criticism |
| Islam and science -- Historiography |
| Europeans -- Middle East -- History -- 16th century |
| Europeans -- Middle East -- History -- 17th century |
| Iran -- History -- Safavid dynasty, 1501-1736 |
| Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 |
