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Daston, Lorraine - Park, Katharine, Wonders and the Order of Nature (1150–1750), Nova York, Zone Books, 1998, 512 pp., 114 il·ls.
- Resum
- Wonders and the Order of Nature 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.
Contents:
I. The topography of wonder
II. The properties of things
III. Wonder among the philosophers
IV. Marvelous particulars
V. Monsters: a case study
VI. Strange facts
VII. Wonders of art, wonders of nature
VIII. The passions of inquiry
IX. The enlightenment and the anti-marvelous
- Matèries
- Història natural
- Notes
- Reimpr. en rústica: 2001.
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