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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface to the New Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Evocation -- One. Provenances -- Two. Oeconomia Rerum et Verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire -- Three. The Commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich -- West Indian Interlude -- Four. The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court -- Interlude in the Laboratory -- Five. Between Words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars -- Epilogue. Projection -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Overview -- Chapter 1. Nodes of Convergence, Material Complexes, and Entangled Itineraries \ Pamela H. Smith -- Chapter 2. Trans-Eurasian Routes of Exchange: A Brief Historical Overview \ Tansen Sen and Pamela H. Smith -- Part 2. Entangled Itineraries: Modes of Approach -- Chapter 3. The Silk Roads as a Model for Exploring Eurasianm Transmissions of Medical Knowledge: Views from the Tibetan Medical Manuscripts of Dunhuang \ Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim -- Chapter 4. Things (Wu) and Their Transformations (Zaowu) in the Late Ming Dynasty: Song Yingxing's and Huang Cheng's Approaches to Mobilizing Craft Knowledge \ Dagmar Schäfer -- Chapter 5. Curative Commodities between Europe and Southeast Asia, 1500-1700 \ Tara Alberts -- Chapter 6. Translating the Art of Tea: Naturalizing Chinese Savoir Faire in British Assam \ Francesca Bray -- Part 3. Material Complexes in Motion -- Chapter 7. The Itinerary of Hing/Awei/Asafetida across Eurasia, 400-1800 \ Angela Ki Che Leung and Ming Chen -- Chapter 8. Smoke and Silkworms: Itineraries of Material Complexes across Eurasia \ Pamela H. Smith, Joslyn DeVinney, Sasha Grafit, and Xiaomeng Liu -- Chapter 9. Itineraries of Images: Agents of Integration in the Buddhist Cosmopolis \ Tansen Sen -- Chapter 10. Itineraries of Inkstones in Early Modern China \ Dorothy Ko -- Part 4. Convergences and the Emergence of New Objects of Knowledge -- Chapter 11. Convergences in and around Bursa: Sufism, Alchemy, Iatrochemistry in Turkey, 1500-1750 \ Feza Günergun -- Chapter 12. A Wooden Skeleton Emerges in the Knowledge Hub of Edo Japan \ Chang Che-chia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

"Trade flowed across Eurasia, around the Indian Ocean, and over the Mediterranean for millennia, but in the early modern period, larger parts of the globe became connected through these established trade routes. Knowledge, embodied in various people, materials, texts, objects, and practices, also moved and came together along these routes in hubs of exchange where different social and cultural groups intersected and interacted. Entangled Itineraries traces this movement of knowledge across the Eurasian continent from the early years of the Common Era to the nineteenth century, following local goods, techniques, tools, and writings as they traveled and transformed into new material and intellectual objects and ways of knowing. Focusing on nonlinear trajectories of knowledge in motion, this volume follows itineraries that weaved in and out of busy, crowded cosmopolitan cities in China; in the trade hubs of Kucha and Malacca; and in centers of Arabic scholarship, such as Reyy and Baghdad, which resonated in Bursa, Assam, and even as far as southern France. Contributors explore the many ways in which materials, practices, and knowledge systems were transformed and codified as they converged, swelled, at times disappeared, and often reemerged anew."--

Making" and "knowing" have generally been viewed as belonging to different types and orders of knowledge. "Craft" and "making" have been associated with how-to information, oriented to a particular situation or product, often informal and tacit, while "knowing" has been related to theoretical, propositional, and abstract knowledge including natural science. Although craftspeople and artists have worked with natural materials and sometimes have been viewed as experts in the behavior of matter, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book explores the circumstances under which making constituted knowing, and, more specifically, it examines the relationship between making objects and knowing nature in Europe from about 1450 to 1850