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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... woman and child, with European doll, from Theodor de Bry's America, Part I Pict carrying European head, from Theodor de Bry's America, Part I Initial "P" in the first edition of Francis Bacon's Novum Organum Waterworks of the ...
... women, lunatics, and non-Western cultures. And of course artists. It is often, in our time and in the "developed" countries, a form of perception artificially contrived by the political obstruction of access for many people to the ...
... women. The period saw, one might claim, the creation of an "inside," characteristically located in those others crowding the world “outside" the sensorium, or nation, or species of the writer, and generating for its literary environment ...
... , Robert Darnton, Sears Jaynes, and Margaret Spufford, as well as that of Dory Black (in her thesis, “Working Women's Writing in Early Modern England"). but translations are also increasingly common, and faithful, so the Introduction 15.
... Maria Sybilla Merian, about whose adventures in Europe and particularly in Surinam Natalie Zemon Davis has recently written in Women on the AMargina. Peudodoxia epidemica, as well as an exemplum of the new 16 Wonder and Science.
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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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