Wonder and Science : : Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe / / Mary Baine Campbell.
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds-geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound techn...
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Year of Publication: | 2004 |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t List of Illustrations -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t I. Introduction -- |t PART I. IMAGINATION AND DISCIPLINE -- |t II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: André Thevet and America, Part I -- |t III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- |t PART II: ALTERNATIVE WORLDS -- |t IV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds -- |t V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac -- |t VI. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- |t PART III. THE ARTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY -- |t VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters -- |t VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam -- |t IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages amériquains and Enlightenment Ethnology -- |t Coda: The Wild Child -- |t Works Cited -- |t Index |
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520 | |a During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds-geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences-particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology-from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) | |
650 | 0 | |a Imaginary places |x Early works to 1800 |x History and criticism. | |
650 | 0 | |a Philosophy and science |z Europe |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Wonder (Philosophy). | |
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650 | 4 | |a Literary Studies. | |
650 | 4 | |a West European History. | |
650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General . |2 bisacsh | |
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