Studies in the History of Knowledge
About the Book Series
This book series publishes leading volumes that study the history of knowledge in its cultural context. It offers accounts that cut across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, while being sensitive to how institutional circumstances and different scales of time shape the making of knowledge.
Advisory Board:
Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Sven Dupré, Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Arjan van Dixhoorn, University College Roosevelt, the Netherlands;;Rina Knoeff, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Fabian Krämer, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Julia Kursell, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Ad Maas, Museum Boerhaave, the Netherlands; Johan Östling, Lund University, Sweden; Suman Seth, Cornell University, USA; Anita Traninger, FU Berlin, Germany
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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World: The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 2: Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations
1st Edition
Edited
By Oscar Matsuura, Huib Zuidervaart
November 04, 2022
This volume, Volume 2, is a supplementary text and consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Volume 1 presents Marggrafe's stunning biography. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the ...






