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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... slavery, home to an imperial upstart made dangerous to smaller and weaker nations by the myth of its own paradisal innocence and welcome. But it is never possible to waken all the way, nor is it wholly desirable. The longing for another ...
... slaves whose 1763 Berbice rebellion laid the ground for the intra-European struggle over a country that belonged to none of the actors. The Dutchman ghosts speak with English accents. key mathematical formulations, the West African ...
... Slave Quilting in the Ante-Bellum South; Len Evan Goodman's introduction to his translation of Ibn Tufayl's Hai ibn Yaqzan. 14. Latour on Hobbes's horror at Boyle's masterpiece, the air pump: "Worse still, this new coterie [experimental ...
... slavery began to forge its chains of association. WORLDMAKING If I ask about the world, you can offer to tell me how it is under one or another frame of reference; but if I insist that you tell me how it is apart from all frames, what ...
... slaves, which would in practice have ensured that the Spanish would not even have to go through the motions of "negotiating" the seizure of American property and persons. On a world inhabited by bees, see Fontenelle, Entrétiena (from ...
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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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