Campbell, Mary B., 1954-

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.


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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.


Europe-- Intellectual life-- 16th century.
Europe-- Intellectual life-- 17th century.
Europe-- Intellectual life-- 18th century.