Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750
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- Editorial ZONE BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780942299915
- ISBN10 0942299914
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 511
- Any Edició 2001
- Encuadernació Rústica
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Història I Filosofía De La CiènciaWonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750
Editorial ZONE BOOKS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
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.