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Wonder & science [electronic resource] : imagining worlds in e arly modern Europe / Mary Baine Campbell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Fellows' publications | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004, c1999.Edition: 1st printing Cornell pbksDescription: xiv, 366 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cmOther title:
  • Wonder and science
  • Imagining worlds in early modern Europe
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Contents:
I. Introduction -- pt. 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 -- pt. II. Alternative Worlds. IV. On the Infinite Universe a nd the Innumerable Worlds. V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fict ions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac. VI. Outside In: Ho oke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- pt. III. The Arts of Anthropology. VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashi ons, and Monsters. VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra B ehn and Surinam. IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvag es ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.

I. Introduction -- pt. 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 -- pt. II. Alternative Worlds. IV. On the Infinite Universe a nd the Innumerable Worlds. V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fict ions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac. VI. Outside In: Ho oke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- pt. III. The Arts of Anthropology. VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashi ons, and Monsters. VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra B ehn and Surinam. IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvag es ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child.

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