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Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750
Engelsk Paperback
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750
Engelsk Paperback

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Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions — these were the marvels that adorned romances, puzzled philosophers, lured collectors, and frightened the devout.

Drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park explore and explain how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals. This is a history of the passions of inquiry, of how wonder sometimes inflamed, sometimes dampened curiosity about nature’s best-kept secrets. Refracted through the prism of wonders, the order of nature splinters into a spectrum of orders, a tour of possible worlds.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
512
ISBN-13:
9780942299915
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0942299914
Udg. Dato:
10 okt 2001
Længde:
37mm
Bredde:
184mm
Højde:
277mm
Forlag:
Zone Books
Oplagsdato:
10 okt 2001
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