Wonder and Science : : Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe /

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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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2004]
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Rok vydání:2004
Jazyk:English
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Obsah:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Introduction
  • PART I. IMAGINATION AND DISCIPLINE
  • II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: André Thevet and America, Part I
  • III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art
  • PART II: ALTERNATIVE WORLDS
  • IV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds
  • V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac
  • VI. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds
  • PART III. THE ARTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
  • VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters
  • VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam
  • IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages amériquains and Enlightenment Ethnology
  • Coda: The Wild Child
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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