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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... Imaginary places—Early works to 1800–History and criticism. 5. Cosmography— Early works to 1800–History and criticism. 6. Ethnology—Early works to 1800—History and criticism. 7. Philosophy and science — Europe—History. 8. Wonder ...
... Imaginary Gardens, Real Toads Cyrano de Bergerac's Other World— Mimesis and Alterity Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds Truth Even unto Its Innermost Parts: AMicrographia and the Details of the Corporeal Eye Margaret ...
... imaginary and what is offered as, however marvelous, the factual. But fact and fiction are in fact etymological brethren, both children of facere, to make or fabricate. "Les faits sont faits," says Bachelard. Wonder and Science ...
... imaginary people and places, finally distinguishable from the false histories, travels, "relations" of real ones.” Wonder was still an available experience, as in some sense it always is (see Charles Darwin), but its sources were more ...
... Imaginary World: English Politica, Utopianiam, and Travel Literature will be a valuable addition. 21. They are simply absent from the influential histories of F. R. Leavis, Ian Watt, and Arnold Kettle; Hunter, in the ambiguously titled ...
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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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