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      Early Modern HistoryHistoriographyRepublic of Letters (Early Modern History)History of Historiography
Readership All those interested in early modern history, the history of (informal) diplomacy, the history of cultural transfer, the history of collecting; art history of the early modern period; intellectual history. For more information... more
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This is the first book on the genesis, impact and reception of the most-widely read History of England of the early 18th century: Paul Rapin Thoyras' Histoire d'Angleterre (1724-27). The Histoire and complementary works (Extraits des... more
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      Cultural HistoryHistory of MathematicsHistory of the BookRenaissance Humanism
A fresh translation and in-depth commentary of Leibniz's seminal text, the Monadology. Written in 1714, the Monadology is widely considered to be the classic statement of Leibniz's mature philosophy. In the space of 90 numbered... more
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      17th Century & Early Modern PhilosophyEarly Modern Intellectual HistoryGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizRepublic of Letters (Early Modern History)
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Translations: German (1996); Italian (1996); Portuguese(1997); French (1997); Finnish (1997); Swedish (1998, History Book of the Month Club), Russian (1999); Spanish (1999); Japanese (2001); Polish (2012); Czech (2013). Forthcoming Korean.
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Scholars have generally depicted kabbalists within an air of exclusivity. During the second quarter of the eighteenth century, however, a handful of Jewish mystics in Padua, led by Moses Hayim Luzzatto, opened their secret society to... more
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Il saggio intende dimostrare che, subito dopo la pubblicazione, da parte di Alberico Gentili, dei De iuris interpretibus Dialogi sex (1582) e delle Lectiones et Epistolae (1583-1584) i rapporti fra Jean Hotman e il giurista di San Ginesio... more
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      Early Modern HistoryEarly Modern EuropeRepublic of Letters (Early Modern History)The House of Rothschild
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Computational flattening algorithms have been successfully applied to X-ray microtomography scans of damaged historical documents, but have so far been limited to scrolls, books, and documents with one or two folds. The challenge tackled... more
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When does a depiction of the moon become a lunar map? This publication addresses this question from theoretical and historical standpoints. It is argued that moon maps are of crucial importance to the history of cartography, for they... more
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      Early Modern HistoryRepublic of Letters (Early Modern History)Girolamo Cardano
The article offers a case study in the nature of uses of the European past in East Asia at a time when the search for the knowledge of the West was not yet motivated primarily by any sense of its civilizational, moral, or technological... more
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      Intellectual HistoryJapanese StudiesHistory of IdeasEarly Modern History
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      Intellectual History of EnlightenmentHistory of ScholarshipRepublic of Letters (Early Modern History)Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Alberico Gentili (San Ginesio, 1552 – Londra, 1608), uno dei maggiori giuristi della prima Età Moderna, è ritenuto uno dei padri fondatori del diritto internazionale moderno. Perseguitato in patria per la sua adesione alle dottrine... more
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This book explores women as book collectors in Spain from c. 1500 to the end of the eighteenth century. There is a presentation on the problems women collectors had for developing this passion. Then some of the most famous women's... more
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This article provides, for the first time, an overview of all images (drawings and prints) sent by the Dutch microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) to the Royal Society during their fifty-year long correspondence. Analyses of the... more
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A biographical study of the bishop of Vilnius Eustachius Wołłowicz (Valavičius, 1572-1630). Aspects of the bishop as a titular Benedictine abbot, a promoter of religious orders (esp. Jesuits, Discalced Carmelites, Lateran canons,... more
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      Early Modern EuropeRepublic of Letters (Early Modern History)Catholic Church HistoryBishops
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The sermon Thomas Gataker gave at the wedding of Brilliana Conway and Sir Robert Harley in 1623, was published under the title “A Wife in Deed” (1623). Gataker defines marriage as an affective contract between two agents with... more
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      Early Modern HistoryRepublic of Letters (Early Modern History)History of Historiographydidactics of History
Paper and slides presented at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 23-29, 2017) - Symposium S28, "Multiple Spaces: Mapping Communication via Letters between Naturalists"... more
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