Wonder & science imagining worlds in e arly modern Europe / [electronic resource] :
Wonder and science Imagining worlds in early modern Europe
Mary Baine Campbell.
- 1st printing Cornell pbks.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004, c1999.
- xiv, 366 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm.
- ACLS Fellows' publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.
Introduction -- Imagination and Discipline. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America , Part I. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- Alternative Worlds. On the Infinite Universe a nd the Innumerable Worlds. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fict ions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac. Outside In: Ho oke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- The Arts of Anthropology. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashi ons, and Monsters. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra B ehn and Surinam. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvag es ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child. I. pt. I. II . III. pt. II. IV. V. VI. pt. III. VII. VIII. IX.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACL S Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Imaginary places-- Early works to 1800-- History and criticism. Cosmography-- History and criticism.-- Early works to 1800 Ethnology-- Early works to 1800-- History and criticism. Philosophy and science-- History.-- Europe Wonder (Philosophy)-- History.