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Aesthetic Science
- Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720
Engelsk Paperback
Aesthetic Science
- Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720
Engelsk Paperback

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The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780226680866
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022668086X
Udg. Dato:
20 apr 2020
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
124mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
20 apr 2020
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