The Globalization of Knowledge in History

• Main Author: Jürgen Renn (ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Edition Open Access 2012
• Series: Studies 1: Max Planck Research Library in the History and Development of Knowledge
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; epistemology; globalization; science; MPRL; global history; Edition Open Access; interdisciplinary research; history of science; knowledge
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Today scientific, technological and cultural knowledge is shared worldwide. The extent to which globalized knowledge also existed in the past is an open question and, moreover, a question that is important for understanding present processes of globalization. This book, the first volume of the serie...