Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Europe: Transformations and Parallel Developments

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Re-Orienting the Transformation of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion: Nagasaki as a Centre of Accumulation and Management 19
5. Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Europe: Transformations and Parallel Developments 43
6. Empiricism and Image-Building: The Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge on Dutch Brazil 1636–1750 69
7. Arnoldus Montanus, Dutch Brazil, and the Re-Emergence of Cannibalism 93
8. Knowledge Products and their Transmediations: Dutch Geography and the Transformation of the World 121
9. Transformations and Transformativity of Knowledge: François Le Vaillant’s Travelogues from the Dutch Cape Colony 159
10. Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Malabar and the Netherlands: A Review of Van Reede’s Hortus Malabaricus 187
11. Under the Spell of Curiositas: Wouter Schouten (1638–1704) as Ethnologist and Natural Scientist 209
12. Before the Bible, beyond the Bible…? VOC Travelogues, World Views and the Paradigms of Christian Europe 231
13. Index 251