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Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening (editors)
| Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening (editors) |
| Autore | Althoff Jochen |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (408) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/30902 |
| Collana | Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology and civilization
Civilization - History Knowledge, Theory of - History Technology transfer - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Antiquity, Middle Ages
Knowledge Transfer Universals Cultural History History of Astronomy Eschatology Ancient History Medieval History History |
| ISBN | 3-8376-4236-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter 1 CONTENT 5 Preface and Acknowledgements 9 The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era 13 Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge 41 The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt 71 Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture 99 Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity 123 The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium 167 "He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE 187 Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt 213 Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas 253 Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity 279 Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration 289 The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources 313 Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von Freising 343 The Ragnark Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing 365 Conclusion - The End of the World in Fire 385 About the Authors 391 Authors and Texts Cited 395 General index 403 |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996309242803316 |
Althoff Jochen
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| Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening (editors)
| Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening (editors) |
| Autore | Althoff Jochen |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (408) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/30902 |
| Collana | Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology and civilization
Civilization - History Knowledge, Theory of - History Technology transfer - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Antiquity, Middle Ages
Knowledge Transfer Universals Cultural History History of Astronomy Eschatology Ancient History Medieval History History |
| ISBN | 3-8376-4236-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter 1 CONTENT 5 Preface and Acknowledgements 9 The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era 13 Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge 41 The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt 71 Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture 99 Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity 123 The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium 167 "He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE 187 Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt 213 Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas 253 Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity 279 Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration 289 The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources 313 Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von Freising 343 The Ragnark Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing 365 Conclusion - The End of the World in Fire 385 About the Authors 391 Authors and Texts Cited 395 General index 403 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910315227803321 |
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Althoff Jochen
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| Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The tentacles of progress [[electronic resource] ] : technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940 / / Daniel R. Headrick
| The tentacles of progress [[electronic resource] ] : technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940 / / Daniel R. Headrick |
| Autore | Headrick Daniel R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p. ) : maps, tables, graph |
| Disciplina | 338.9/26 |
| Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - History
Technology transfer - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-44971-3
0-19-802178-X 1-60129-673-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458523203321 |
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Headrick Daniel R
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The tentacles of progress : technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940 / / Daniel R. Headrick
| The tentacles of progress : technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940 / / Daniel R. Headrick |
| Autore | Headrick Daniel R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 405 pages) : maps, tables, graph |
| Disciplina | 338.9/26 |
| Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - History
Technology transfer - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-028149-9
1-280-44971-3 0-19-802178-X 1-60129-673-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784559203321 |
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Headrick Daniel R
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| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1988 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The tentacles of progress : technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940 / / Daniel R. Headrick
| The tentacles of progress : technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940 / / Daniel R. Headrick |
| Autore | Headrick Daniel R |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 405 pages) : maps, tables, graph |
| Disciplina |
338.9/26
338.91091724 |
| Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - History
Technology transfer - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-028149-9
1-280-44971-3 0-19-802178-X 1-60129-673-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Imperialism, Technology, and Tropical Economies -- Technologies and Western-Tropical Relations -- The Transfer Process -- The Setting and the Argument -- Notes -- 2 Ships and Shipping -- Characteristics of World Shipping -- Steamships before 1869 -- The Suez Canal -- Shipbuilding after 1869 -- Tropical Harbors -- The New Organization of Shipping -- The Major Shipping Companies -- The Causes of British Supremacy -- Notes -- 3 The Railways of India -- Origins of the Indian Railways -- Building the Trunk Lines (1853-71) -- The Era of State Construction (1870-79) -- The New Guarantee Period (1880-1914) -- World War I and After (1914-47) -- The Locomotive Industry -- Consequences and Comparisons -- Notes -- 4 The Imperial Telecommunications Networks -- Submarine Telegraph Cables, 1850-70 -- Cable Technology to 1914 -- Submarine Cables and the British Empire, 1870-1914 -- The French Cable Network, 1856-95 -- British Abuses and French Reactions, 1884-1914 -- The Indian Telegraphs -- French Colonial Posts and Telegraphs -- Colonial Wireless Networks to 1918 -- British Wireless after 1918 -- French Wireless after 1918 -- Notes -- 5 Cities, Sanitation, and Segregation -- Hong Kong Water -- Calcutta Sewage and Sanitation -- Dakar and the Plague -- Notes -- 6 Hydraulic Imperialism in India and Egypt -- Precolonial Irrigation and British Restorations to 1837 -- The Classic Era of Indian Irrigation, 1838-54 -- The Era of Private Irrigation, 1854-69 -- Productive and Protective Works, 1866-98 -- The Indian Irrigation Commission and After, 1897-1940 -- Egypt, the Nile, and the British -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Economic Botany and Tropical Plantations -- Tropical Crops from Plunder to Science -- Plant Transfers and the British Botanic Empire -- Agricultural Research in the British Tropics.
Science and Agriculture in the Dutch East Indies -- Tropical Botany in France -- Botany and Plantations in the French Empire -- Cinchona -- Sugar Cane -- Rubber -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Mining and Metallurgy -- Malayan Tin and Chinese Technology in the Nineteenth Century -- The Western Takeover of Malayan Tin -- Opening the African Copperbelt -- Katanga Copper, 1911-40 -- Iron and Steel in India: the Demand Side -- Indian Iron before 1914 -- Background of the Indian Steel Industry -- The Tata Iron and Steel Company -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Technical Education -- Technical Education in Egypt -- Vocational Education in West Africa -- Technical Education in India: Demand and Supply -- The Politics of Technical Education in India -- Foreign Study and Independent Schools -- Technical Education after World War I -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Experts and Enterprises -- The Smallholders -- The Experts -- The Cotton Mills -- Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding -- Indianizing the Steel Industry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Technology Transfer and Colonial Politics -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817552703321 |
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Headrick Daniel R
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Transatlantic industrial revolution : the diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830s / / David J. Jeremy
| Transatlantic industrial revolution : the diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830s / / David J. Jeremy |
| Autore | Jeremy David J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c1981 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 384 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina | 338.4/5677/00941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Textile industry - United States - Technological innovations - History
Textile industry - Great Britain - Technological innovations - History Diffusion of innovations - United States - History Diffusion of innovations - Great Britain - History Technology transfer - History Industries Business & Economics |
| ISBN | 0-262-10022-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996247936703316 |
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Jeremy David J
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c1981 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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