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Wonder & science : imagining worlds in early modern Europe
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Mary Baine Campbell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st printing Cornell pbks
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2004]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
- data file
- ISBNs
- 0801489180, 0801436486, 9780801489181, 9780801436482
- OCLC
- ocn887850457
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-352) and index.
- I. Introduction -- part I. Imagination and Discipline. II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America, Part I. III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- part II. Alternative Worlds. IV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds. V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac. VI. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- part III. The Arts of Anthropology. VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters. VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam. IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child
Subjects
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
- Imaginary places -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism.
- Cosmography -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism.
- Ethnology -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism.
- Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History.
- Wonder (Philosophy) -- History.