Undying curiosity : Carsten Niebuhr and the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia (1761-1767) /
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Stuttgart :
Franz Steiner Verlag,
[2014]
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| Series: | Oriens et occidens ;
Bd. 22. Geschichte (Franz Steiner Verlag) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One; The Idea of the Expedition: "Benefit for the World of Scholarship"; Michaelis' Proposal: Arabia and the Search for Meaning in the Bible; Johann David Michaelis and the Georgia Augusta University in Göttingen; Why Denmark and Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff?; Assembling the Team: The Philologist
- Frederik Christian von Haven; The Cartographer and his Teacher: Carsten Niebuhr and Tobias Mayer; The Botanist
- Peter Forsskål: An "Apostle" of Linnaeus; Fragen an eine Gesellschaft gelehrter Männer: A European Exercise in Inquiry
- Bernstorff
- the Manager Driving the Project: New Suggestions, Additions and ProblemsNiebuhr and his Instruments: A Detour on the Lunar Distance Method and the Problem of Determining Longitude; Changing the Route and The Royal Instructions; Chapter Two; Exploration and Death Learning about Egypt, the Red Sea and Yemen; The Outbound Voyage
- Copenhagen to Alexandria; Introduction to Egypt: Alexandria, the Nile and Arrival in Cairo; Niebuhr
- Ethnography, Map Making, the Great Pyramids and Hieroglyphs; Forsskål
- The Flora Aegyptiaco; Haven
- Manuscripts and Hebrew Codices
- Frustration and Failure in the SinaiSailing the Red Sea
- Discovering Marine Life and Creating a Chart; Scientific Discovery in Yemen: Exploring the Tihāmah and the Coffee Mountains; A Tragic Ending in Yemen: al Mukhā
- Şan'ā'
- Bombay; Chapter Three; The Solitary Explorer The Long Journey Home: India, the Persian Gulf and Lands of the Middle East; Rejuvenation and Inspiration: A Brief Exposure to The Culture of Western India; The Voyage from Bombay to al Başrah: Oman, Persepolis and Pirates of the Persian Gulf
- "Do not order me to travel too hastily. Now is the time when I can learn something.": The Lands and Peoples of Iraq and the LevantFrom Caravans to Kings: The End of the Expedition; Chapter Four; Presenting The Expedition To The World and The Expedition's Significance For The Eighteenth Century; The Struggle to Publish the Findings of the Expedition; From Geography to Botany: The Results of the Expedition; Geography; Cartography; Navigational Astronomy; Antiquities and Archeology; The Natural Sciences; Philology; The Evaluation of Niebuhr's Works in the 18th Century and Since
- Epilogue Niebuhr's Return to a Rural Tradition: The Meldorf Years, 1778-1815Conclusion; List of Illustrations, Maps and Charts; Bibliography of Published Sources; Index
