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Book Title
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
ISBN
9780942299915
Subject Area
Science, Référence
Publication Name
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750
Publisher
ZONE Books
Item Length
11 in
Subject
Natural History, History, Curiosities & Wonders
Publication Year
2001
Type
Not Available
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.5 in
Author
Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston
Features
Reprint
Item Weight
45.6 Oz
Item Width
7.2 in
Number of Pages
512 Pages
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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.

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ZONE Books
ISBN-10
0942299914
ISBN-13
9780942299915
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750
Publication Year
2001
Subject
Natural History, History, Curiosities & Wonders
Features
Reprint
Type
Not Available
Subject Area
Science, Référence
Author
Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
45.6 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
7.2 in

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21
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Park and Daston's splendid book opens up a whole new perspective, not only on the modern aspects of the collections ... but on the larger history to which they belong. Their rich illustrations and detailed, learned captions, ingeniously laid out in dialogue with the erudite text, bring the reader into a series of spaces where natural objects were laid out for display and study, from the court banquet to the early laboratory.
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College Graduate Student
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.4/2
Intended Audience
College Audience
Edition Description
Reprint

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