Abstract
Motion defined the world of early modern savants. Whether Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or English, they were taken by the new intellectual challenges and options of a world populated by people and objects moving over lands, oceans and heavens. How are we to tell the history of knowledge at the eve of modernity giving this global experience its due?
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In fact, Hall himself knew it was wrong – his following page is full with evidence to the contrary.
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And see also Schaffer et al. (2009).
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Cf. Harris (1998).
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See also his Brook (1988).
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See also Konan (1992).
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Gal, O., Zheng, Y. (2014). Global Motion and the Production of Knowledge. In: Gal, O., Zheng, Y. (eds) Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7383-7_1
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