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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 1: Life, Work and Legacy / Oscar Matsuura, Huib Zuidervaart.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the History of KnowledgePublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048556212
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 520.92 23/eng/20230113
LOC classification:
  • QB36.M3735 Z85 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Studies in the History of Knowledge -- CONTENTS -- Volume 1 Life, Work and Legacy -- Preface -- PART I – CONTEXT -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN DUTCH BRAZIL? -- PART II – BIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 3 YOUTH IN GERMANY -- CHAPTER 4 A CRUCIAL YEAR AT LEIDEN UNIVERSITY -- CHAPTER 5 LIFE IN BRAZIL -- CHAPTER 6 LEGACY -- PART III – ASTRONOMY -- CHAPTER 7 BACKGROUND -- CHAPTER 8 SETTING AND EQUIPMENT -- CHAPTER 9 OBSERVATIONS IN LEIDEN AND RECIFE -- PART IV – CONCLUSION AND EPILOGUE -- CHAPTER 10 RETROSPECTIVE -- APPENDICES -- NOTES -- CONSULTED ARCHIVES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- LITERATURE -- INDEX
Summary: Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astronomical observatory on the South-American continent, where he systematically charted the southern stars. He intended to supplement the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe, who charted the Northern sky half a century before. But Marggrafe’s untimely death (and the negligence of a Leiden professor) prevented the publication of his valuable observations. As a result, Marggrafe did not achieve fame in astronomy, but instead became famous for his equally remarkable other achievements. This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published.
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Frontmatter -- Studies in the History of Knowledge -- CONTENTS -- Volume 1 Life, Work and Legacy -- Preface -- PART I – CONTEXT -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN DUTCH BRAZIL? -- PART II – BIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 3 YOUTH IN GERMANY -- CHAPTER 4 A CRUCIAL YEAR AT LEIDEN UNIVERSITY -- CHAPTER 5 LIFE IN BRAZIL -- CHAPTER 6 LEGACY -- PART III – ASTRONOMY -- CHAPTER 7 BACKGROUND -- CHAPTER 8 SETTING AND EQUIPMENT -- CHAPTER 9 OBSERVATIONS IN LEIDEN AND RECIFE -- PART IV – CONCLUSION AND EPILOGUE -- CHAPTER 10 RETROSPECTIVE -- APPENDICES -- NOTES -- CONSULTED ARCHIVES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- LITERATURE -- INDEX

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Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astronomical observatory on the South-American continent, where he systematically charted the southern stars. He intended to supplement the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe, who charted the Northern sky half a century before. But Marggrafe’s untimely death (and the negligence of a Leiden professor) prevented the publication of his valuable observations. As a result, Marggrafe did not achieve fame in astronomy, but instead became famous for his equally remarkable other achievements. This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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