Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern EuropeCornell University Press, 10 dec 2004 - 384 pagina's 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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... Indian sugar plantations, the Moon, the microscope, the Journal ded Scawana'! This book does not provide an answer, although it assumes a model in which the actual (if very much pre- and postfabricated) encounters of European explorers ...
... Indians, moon-people, flies, monsters, itinerant rogues, and, above all, women. The period saw, one might claim, the creation of an "inside," characteristically located in those others crowding the world “outside" the sensorium, or ...
... Indian Queen (later—1695–Purcell's opera). See chapter 8. On exotic dress and the performance of foreign cultures in ballet and opera, see my notes in Chapter 7. (See also Michèle Longino, “Staging of Exoticism," for a critical study of ...
... Indian trade, James Axtell describes what to the native Americans was the “Englishmen's implausible preference for the greasy beaver robes they had worn for a year or more in their smoky lodges. Far from the hatters' workshops and high ...
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PART II ALTERNATIVE WORLDS | 111 |
PART III THE ARTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY | 221 |
The Wild Child | 319 |
Works Cited | 325 |
Index | 353 |
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