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Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580â1637) was a âprinceâ of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peirescâs study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exoticâtravel times and insurance premiums, rare manuscripts and objects from the Orient. Mining the remarkable 70,000-page archive of this Provençal humanist and polymath, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century that was dominated by the sea: the ceaseless activity of merchants, customs officials, and shipsâ captains at the center of Europeâs sprawling maritime networks. Peirescâs Mediterranean World reconstructs the web of connections that linked the bustling port city of Marseille to destinations throughout the Western Mediterranean, North Africa, the Levant, and beyond.
As Miller also makes clear, Peirescâs mastery of practical details and his collaboration with local traders and fixers as well as scholars shed new light on the structure of knowledge-making in the age of Bacon, Galileo, and Rubens. Miller shows that Peirescâs pursuit of Oriental studies, for example, depended crucially on his abilities as a man of action. Exploring the historianâs craft today against the backdrop of Peirescâs diverse research activities, Peirescâs Mediterranean World suggests new possibilities for scholarship on the past, but also for the relationship between the writing of history and its readers.
About: Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580â1637) was a âprinceâ of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes.
This edition also contains A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies
About: Describes more than four hundred species of birds and includes information on range and habitat
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