Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750
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Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750
Zone Books, 1998
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注記
Bibliography: p. 451-497
Includes index
内容説明・目次
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A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world.
Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry is simultaneously a history of the evolving collective sensibility of naturalists. Pursued in tandem, these interwoven histories show how the two sides of knowledge, objective order and subjective sensibility, were obverse and reverse of the same coin rather than opposed to one another."-From the Introduction
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 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.
目次
- Part 1 The topography of wonder: marvels on the margins
- wonders of creation
- prodigious individuals and marvellous kinds
- wonder and belief. Part 2 The properties of things: collecting wonders
- artificial marvels
- wonders at court. Part 3 Wonder among the philosophers: the philosophers against wonder
- curiosity and the preternatural
- making wonders cease. Part 4 marvellous particulars: marvellous therapeutics
- preternatural history
- preternatural philosophy. Part 5 Monsters - a case study: horror - monsters as prodigies
- pleasure - monsters as sport
- repugnance - monsters as errors. Part 6 Strange facts: Baconian reforms
- strange facts in learned societies
- the sociability of strange facts
- the credibility of strange facts. Part 7 Wonders of art, wonders of nature: art and nature opposed
- the wonders of art and nature displayed
- the wonders of art and nature conjoined
- nature as artist, nature as art. Part 8 The passions of inquiry: ravening curiosity
- wonder and curiosity allied
- gawking wonder. Part 9 The enlightenment and the anti-marvellous: the unholy Trinity - enthusiasms, superstition, imagination
- vulgarity and the love of the marvellous
- nature's decorum
- the wistful counter-enlightenment.
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