Transformations of knowledge in Dutch expansion / / editors, Susanne Friedrich, Arndt Brendecke, Stefan Ehrenpreis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813340903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 3-11-039146-5; 3-11-036617-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Pluralisierung & Autorität, , 2076-8281 ; ; Band 44
• Classificazione: NK 2405
• Disciplina: 303.482492
• Soggetti: Knowledge; Germany, Northern Relations Netherlands; Netherlands Civilization 17th century; Netherlands Civilization 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Brendecke, Arndt / Friedrich, Susanne -- Re-Orienting the Transformation of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion: Nagasaki as a Centre of Accumulation and Management / Roberts, Lissa -- Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Europe: Transformations and Parallel Developments / Ishizu, Mina / Valeriani, Simona -- Empiricism and Image-Building: The Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge on Dutch Brazil 1636-1750 / Ehrenpreis, Stefan -- Arnoldus Montanus, Dutch Brazil, and the Re-Emergence of Cannibalism / Groesen, Michiel van -- Knowledge Products and their Transmediations: Dutch Geography and the Transformation of the World / Schmidt, Benjamin -- Transformations and Transformativity of Knowledge: François Le Vaillant's Travelogues from the Dutch Cape Colony / Fischer-Kattner, Anke -- Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Malabar and the Netherlands: A Review of Van Reede's Hortus Malabaricus / Singh, Anjana -- Under the Spell of Curiositas: Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) as Ethnologist and Natural Scientist / Noak, Bettina -- Before the Bible, beyond the Bible...? VOC Travelogues, World Views and the Paradigms of Christian Europe / Rietbergen, Peter -- ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.

The Retina and Circadian Rhythms / / edited by Gianluca Tosini, P. Michael Iuvone, Douglas G. McMahon, Shaun P. Collin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298351303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-4614-9613-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Collana: Springer Series in Vision Research, , 2625-2635 ; ; 1
• Disciplina: 612.05
• Soggetti: Neurosciences; Ophthalmology; Neurobiology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Fundamental Retinal Circuitry for Circadian Rhythms -- 3. Circadian photoreception: from phototransduction to behaviour -- 4. Role of Melatonin and Dopamine in the Regulation of Retinal Circadian Rhythms -- 5. Circadian Organization of the Vertebrate Retina -- 6. Rhythmicity of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium ; -- 7. Retinal Circadian Rhythms in Mammals Revealed Using Electroretinography -- 8. Circadian Clock and Light Induced Retinal Damage -- 9. Circadian Rhythms and Vision in Zebrafish -- 10. Circadian Modulation of the Limulus Eye for Day and Night Vision -- 11. Molluscan Ocular Pacemakers: Lessons Learned. .
• Sommario/riassunto: The retina plays a critical role in the organization of the circadian system by synchronizing the brain’s central clock with the external day through transduction of the daily light/dark cycle. However, the substantial variation in luminance imposed on the retina between day and night also poses a challenge to its role as a sensory tissue – how is it possible to faithfully encode the enormous dynamic range of luminance that can exceed 10 orders of magnitude? The Retina and Circadian Rhythms summarizes the knowledge accumulated over the last 30 years about the organization of the retinal circadian clock in many different species, concentrating on the roles that this circadian system plays in retinal function. About the Series: The Springer Series in Vision Research is a comprehensive update and overview of cutting edge vision research, exploring, in depth, current breakthroughs at a conceptual level. It details the whole visual system, from molecular processes to anatomy, physiology and behavior and covers both invertebrate and vertebrate organisms from terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Each book in the Series is aimed at all individuals with interests in vision including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, established vision scientists and clinical investigators.The series editors are N. Justin Marshall, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia and Shaun P. Collin, Neuroecology Group within the School of Animal Biology and the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia.