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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... invention, venture capital, conquest; the active, not the contemplative virtues were in the ascendance. Increasingly, wonder was suspect, inconvenient, needed to be put in its (eventually aesthetic) place.” From a fully modern point of ...
... Invention of Culture. Wagner contrasts the "objective" invention, based on “observing and learning" (4) with the "uncontrolled fantasies. . . of Herodotus, or the travelers' tales of the Middle Ages," which “we can scarcely speak of [as] ...
... invention of the imaginary "modern" dispensation ("as if there were a past!" [We Have Never Been AModern, 72]). After a brief discussion of how the "irreversible arrow — progress or decadence" (73) has been laboriously constructed ...
... invention du Nouveau Monde" (104) and his many readers. Was the reality of Europe in the late Renaissance in fact (and not only for Americans and Africans) a "source of all suffering," "an enemy" from which a reading and writing ...
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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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