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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... Voyage. ... of the English Nation (1589) HIS IS HOW I learned the adventure of the New World at Hudson Elementary School: as a moment of wonder, compounded of dream, surprise, delight, the trope of paradise realized on earth. It has ...
... voyage to Brazil and Joseph Lafitau's to Canada, between the late masterpieces of Neoplatonism and the first of a theorized anthropology. I will not pay much attention to the construction of new religions, new nations, new polities, new ...
... Voyage to the AMoon, Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World, and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko have been denied that formal ... voyages, utopias, exotic fictions, confessions) are interesting in many ways. One of these ways is in their ...
... voyage," is a perfect instance of the hybrid—as ethnographic as it is novelistic, and thereby offering us surprising insights into the germination of both enterprises. Lafitau's AMoeuro not only records voluminous ethnographic detail ...
... voyage accounts by Léry, Marc Lescarbot, Samuel de Champlain, and Thomas Gage, as well as Strabo's Geographia and Ramusio's Viaggi, the rough Italian equivalent of Richard Hakluyt's Voyage...)" Both Thevet's and de Bry's publications ...
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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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