The worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age. Comparative approaches.

Leiden & Boston, Brill, [2021]. X,446 pp. 3 col. figs. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, Vol. 33). [ISBN: 978-90-04-46232-8]. - New unused copy !Recent research has established the continued importance of engagement with the classical tradition to the formation of scholarly, philosophical, theological, and scientific knowledge well into the eighteenth century. This book is the first attempt to adopt a comparative approach to this phenomenon. An international team of scholars explores the differences and similarities - across time and place - in how the study and use of ancient texts and ideas shaped a wide range of fields: nascent classics, sexuality, chronology, metrology, the study of the soul, medicine, the history of Judaeo-Christian interaction, and biblical criticism. By adopting a comparative approach, this volume brings out some of the most important factors in explaining the contours of early modern intellectual life. Includes 10 contributions in English by Karen Hollewand, Dmitri Levitin, Jan Machielsen, Ian Maclean, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Cesare Pastorino, Michelle Pfeffer, Jetze Touber, Timothy Twining, and Floris Verhaart. - The publisher's new price is 161.32. …