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Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750
Series: Zone Books
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This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of science, philosophy, art history, and European intellectual culture between the Middle Ages and Enlightenment.
A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world.
"Historians of science Daston and Park's sweeping investigation into theplace of wonder and wonders in natural philosophy and history-fromthe High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment-is dense with eruditionand pleasingly light on its scholarly feet." Kirkus Review
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This text explores ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through to 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, and celestial apparitions adorned romances and puzzled philosophers.
Drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, this book explores and explains how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals.
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Dan Burton calls it "marvelous in both senses: a marvel of scholarship filled with marvels and wonders." Stephen Greenblatt describes it as "a dazzling book," while Anthony Grafton simply praises it as "splendid."
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780942299915
Publisher: Zone Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 October 2001
Country: United States
Imprint: Zone Books
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 181.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 1293g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Lorraine Daston is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her Classical Probability in the Enlightenment was also awarded the Pfizer Prize. Katharine Park is the Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science and Women's Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence.
Also by Lorraine Daston
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