Conveners
S.2.5. Intellectual Mobility, Commerce, and Academic Networks
- Stefano Gulizia (Ca' Foscari University in Venice)
- Mai Lootah (Rice University)
- Nihal Özdemir (İstanbul)
Description
Chair: Luís Campos Ribeiro
At his death, Francis Xavier held a fragment of Loyola’s handwriting and a relic. Beyond this episode, it is well-known that books, devotional objects, merchandise, and prints criss-crossed between Asia and Europe, in both directions, and despite an imperfect mailing system. Indeed, in the long seventeenth century the Jesuits became the main producers and distributors of relics, as well as...
Scholarly attention has largely focused on the European works transmitted, translated, adapted, and integrated into Ottoman intellectual life, such as Gerardus Mercator’s cartographic works, as published and expanded by Jodocus Hondius in Atlas Minor (1607), (1607), and Joan Bleau’s Atlas Maior (1662-1672). However, few studies have explored the pathways through which such works traveled or...
One of the most significant scientist-merchant collaborations of the 18th century, the partnership between James Watt and Matthew Boulton, provides a crucial case study for understanding how knowledge circulated through academic communities, intellectual networks, and commercial practices. This study explores how Watt and Boulton met, how their skills complemented each other, and how their...
