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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... language have been suggested, the Islamic sources unearthed of some of Copernicus's 9. See especially William Nelson, Factor Fiction; Percy G. Adams, Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel; Lennard Davis, Factual Fictiona, and ...
... language (inevitably culture-bound as even the technical lexicons of the sciences are). The magnetism of the ethnographer's own cultural assumptions curves her descriptions of other cultures into globes that tend to function as versions ...
... by the literary historian Erica Harth as a work of "scientific popularization"[Cyrano de Bergerac, 41). now-familiar novelistic conceptual structures and language habits: the firstperson protagonist-narrator; 12 Wonder and Science.
... language habits: the firstperson protagonist-narrator; the value of individual experience; minutiae of description; the rhetoric of facticity; the reportability of bodily sensation and the reader's discovery of the sensational as ...
... language in which their reading was done.” As we move toward the eighteenth century, catalogues tend to consist more and more of books in the vernacular language of their owners, 24. For a stimulating, nuanced, and more generous view of ...
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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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