Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650) /:

Bernhard Varenius' books influenced the history of science in such a way that Isaac Newton, Alexander von Humboldt and Tsar Peter the Great all referred to him. Varenius wrote the first comprehensive description of Japan (""Descriptio regni Japoniae, "" 1649) from a European...

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Weitere Verfasser: Schuchard, Margret
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
German
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 159.
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Zusammenfassung:Bernhard Varenius' books influenced the history of science in such a way that Isaac Newton, Alexander von Humboldt and Tsar Peter the Great all referred to him. Varenius wrote the first comprehensive description of Japan (""Descriptio regni Japoniae, "" 1649) from a European perspective, exclusively based on a diversity of sources. But the impact of his ""Geographia generalis"" (1650) explains his ranking among the founding fathers of geography as a science. He called 'general' geography a branch of (applied) mathematics which does not deal with regional specifics. The contributions in this boo.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-335) and index.
ISBN:9789047432197
9047432193
1281940038
9781281940032
9786611940034
6611940030
ISSN:0920-8607 ;

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