Books in the Information Cultures series

Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion.

By the end of 1697-the year his network finally began to work-Leibniz laughed to one of his patrons, "I'm putting a sign on my door reading, 'Bureau of Address for China'!Depicting Leibniz not as a philosophical authority but as a scholar with human limitations and frustrations, Leibniz Discovers Asia is a thrilling and engaging narrative.