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Title:
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The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe.
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Price:
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\6,240
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Author:
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Ramachandran, Ayesha
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ISBN:
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978-0-226-59887-1
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Paperback
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Hardback
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Pub Date:
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201809
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Availability:
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Publisher(Imprint):
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Univ. of Chicago Pr.
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Description:
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From Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy?all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.
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