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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... seems to have been a real pressure on the construction of the Edenic narrative of America. Though "Eden" came to obscure terrible exploitations of people, nations, land, and resources, and came to it soon, that does not give us leave ...
... seems to imply that for every proposition or axiom or even semantic pattern there is an implied world for which it is true. For my category of "worlds" I would like to retain as an attribute the social concept of the habitable or ...
... seem finally to have formalized the exclusion of sensibility from elite scientific practice and the exclusion of information-value from mainstream fictional narrative — exclusions that until recently functioned as constitutive for the ...
... seem perverse after so much reference to the liberatory powers of alternative textual worlds, but the pedagogical moralism ... seems usually to refer to intermediaries and systems that belong to both the human/social and natural spheres ...
... seem to have. 12. On Renaissance collecting and museums, see Paula Findlen, "Jokes of Nature" and Poodeading Nature: Museum, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy; Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park have written on ...
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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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