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Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds In Early Modern Europe
by Mary Baine Campbell (Author),
Cornell University Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the
proliferation of new worlds -- geographic worlds found in the voyages of
discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or
science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound
technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe
was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In
the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary
Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and
the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences -- particularly geography,
astronomy, and anthropology -- from
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780801436482
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Cornell University Press
Publishing Date 1999-12-03
Total Pages 366