Table of Contents for Merchants of Knowledge

Merchants of Knowledge
Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe
Robert G. Morrison

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Preface

Map of the Eastern Mediterranean ca. 1500 CE

Introduction

1.The Network of Merchant-Scholar Families of Candia

2.Astrology, a Shared Hermeneutic

3.Transactions of Astronomical Tables and Instruments

4.Aristotelianism across Borders

5.Aristotelianism and Qabbalah

6.Theoretical Astronomy between Renaissance Italy and the Ottoman Empire

7.Tricks of the Trade in Mechanics and Medicine

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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