Wonder and Science : Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe, Mary Baine Campbell, (electronic resource)

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Wonder and Science : Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe, Mary Baine Campbell, (electronic resource)

Title remainder

Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe

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electronic resource

Statement of responsibility

Mary Baine Campbell

Instantiates

• Wonder and Science : Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe

Publication

• Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1999

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Description based upon print version of record

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index

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online resource

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Contents

• Wonder & Science ; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; I. Introduction; Wonder, and Science; Worldmaking; A Map; PART I. IMAGINATION AND DISCIPLINE; II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: André Thevet and America, Part I; Pleasure; The Isles of André Thevet; Anecdote; Thomas Hariot, John White, and Theodor de Bry: The Briefe report and America, Part I; III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art; Francis Bacon and the Novum Organum: Repression; Catalogues and Tables: Iteration; Sir Thomas Browne: ""Ironicall Mistakes""; Knowledge Is Power; Robert Plot: Cybernetics
• PART II. ALTERNATIVE WORLDSIV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds; Sublimity: Bruno's De l'infinito universo et mondi; The Empirical: Galileo and the ""Enchanted Glass""; Lunar Astronomy; Fiction: The Minuet of Fontenelle; V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac; The Man in the Moon: Imaginary Gardens, Real Toads; Cyrano de Bergerac's Other World-Mimesis and Alterity; VI. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds; Truth Even unto Its Innermost Parts: Micrographia and the Details of the Corporeal Eye
• Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-WorldOther World; Inner World; What the Microscope Missed; PART III. THE ARTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY; VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters; Anthropometamorphosis; Categories and Misfits, or, What Is That Naked Monster Doing in a Book about Clothes?; VIII. ""My Travels to the other World"": Aphra Behn and Surinam; Fashion Plates in Surinam; Exposed, Excised, Experienced; Fiction, Science, and Agency; IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages amériquains and Enlightenment Ethnology; On the Brink of Anthropology
• Father Lafitau and the Moeurs des sauvages amériquaines""La Religion influoit en tout""; Ventriloquism and Possession: Empty Bodies, Moving Souls; Torture; Psalmanazar, Formosa, and the Other Self; Coda: The Wild Child; Works Cited; Index

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1 online resource (383 p.)

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online

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9781501705069

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computer

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99149234576701651

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