Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense that humans encountered only an incomplete reality.
Ranging from Paradise Lost to thinkers in and around the Royal Society and commentary on the Book of Job, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought explores how the era of the scientific revolution was in part paralyzed by and in part energized by the paradox it encountered in thinking about the elusive nature of God and the unfathomable nature of the natural world. Looking at writers with scientific, literary and theological interests, from the shoemaker mystic, Jacob Boehme to John Milton, from Robert Boyle to Margaret Cavendish, and from Thomas Browne to the fiery prophet, Anna Trapnel, Kevin Killeen shows how seventeenth-century writings redeployed the rich resources of the ineffable and the apophatic—what cannot be said, except in negative terms—to think about natural philosophy and the enigmas of the natural world.
Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense that humans encountered only an incomplete reality.
Ranging from Paradise Lost to thinkers in and around the Royal Society and commentary on the Book of Job, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought explores how the era of the scientific revolution was in part paralyzed by and in part energized by the paradox it encountered in thinking about the elusive nature of God and the unfathomable nature of the natural world. Looking at writers with scientific, literary and theological interests, from the shoemaker mystic, Jacob Boehme to John Milton, from Robert Boyle to Margaret Cavendish, and from Thomas Browne to the fiery prophet, Anna Trapnel, Kevin Killeen shows how seventeenth-century writings redeployed the rich resources of the ineffable and the apophatic—what cannot be said, except in negative terms—to think about natural philosophy and the enigmas of the natural world.
Автор: Valenti, Salvatore Название: Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape ISBN: 1032184183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032184180 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Cooley, Mackenzie Название: Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds ISBN: 1032397187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032397184 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 137810.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Glatz, Claudia Название: Archaeology of the Early Black Sea Region ISBN: 1138780545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138780545 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 107190.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Lindsay Starkey Название: Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond: Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging ISBN: 9462988730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462988736 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 166150.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle’s works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, sixteenth-century Europeans particularly were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why they were so interested in water’s failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the southern hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth’s ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late.
Автор: Cooley, Mackenzie Название: Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds ISBN: 1032397209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032397207 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 36740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Karl A.E. Enenkel, Paul J. Smith Название: Emblems and the Natural World ISBN: 9004347062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004347069 Издательство: Brill Цена: 290890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Since its invention by Andrea Alciato, the emblem is inextricably connected to the natural world. Alciato and his followers drew massively their inspiration from it. For their information about nature, the emblem authors were greatly indebted to ancient natural history, the medieval bestiaries, and the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius’s botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the ‘applied’ emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious.Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.
Автор: John Lyon Название: From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics ISBN: 0268009554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268009557 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 114400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This scholarly and conscientious book makes an important . . . contribution to the study and interpretation of Buffon, and so, too, to the Enlightenment generally. What Lyon and Sloan have done is present English texts under four headings, so that we have successively: a selection from Buffon's writings prior to the first (1749) volumes of his Histoire naturelle; pieces from these first volumes of 1749; immediate responses by the earliest critics, writing about the 1749 texts, and finally H rault de S chelles' essay on Buffon, Voyage MontbardK/i>. Much of the material is in translations made by Lyon and Sloan themselves, and in many cases the texts are ones not previously translated into English. Moreover, at every turn Lyon and Sloan have provided highly informative notes and commentary. In a substantial and original introduction, they have discussed the nature of Buffon's natural history especially from an epistemological point of view. --Medical History-- "sis"
Автор: Fox Robert Название: Thomas Harriot and His World: Mathematics, Exploration, and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England ISBN: 0754669602 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754669609 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A second volume of papers on Thomas Harriot that is based on the annual Harriot lectures delivered at Oriel College, Oxford between 2000 and 2009. It complements the previous volume, published as "Thomas Harriot".
Автор: Mariss Anne Название: Johann Reinhold Forster and the Making of Natural History on ISBN: 1498556140 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498556149 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 89100.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book examines the role of German scholar Johann Reinhold Forster, who served as principal naturalist on James Cook`s second voyage of exploration to the Pacific from 1772 to 1775. It examines how Forster contributed to our knowledge of natural history on a daily basis aboard the Resolution.
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