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Wonder and Science : Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 0801436486 1501705067 1501705059 9781501705069 9780801436482 0801489180 9780801489181 9781501705052 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,

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During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds-geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences-particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology-from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography.


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Ultima Thulé: Histoire d'un lieu et genèse d'un mythe
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ISSN: 00732397 ISBN: 9782600012348 2600012346 Year: 2009 Volume: 449 Publisher: Genève Droz


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Christianity beyond Christendom : the global Christian experience on medieval mappaemundi and early modern world maps
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ISSN: 07249594 ISBN: 9783447107150 3447107154 Year: 2018 Volume: 149 Publisher: Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,

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In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller created a remarkable Early Modern world map loaded with religious symbols. The cartographer depicted the papal keys, which according to the map's companion text, the "Cosmographiae Introductio", "enclosed almost the whole of Europe for the Western Church." However, beyond the boundaries of Europe's Christendom, the map pictured Nestorian churches in China and the legendary Christian ruler Prester John in India. His subsequent "Carta marina" (1516) amplified the descriptions of these religious traditions. Waldseemüller's maps, like almost every other world map of the era, featured legends of Christian communities positioned outside of the Christendom. This book explores this religious tension - the diversities of "globally" scattered Christian traditions and the more rigid notion of a homogenous Christendom - as a component of cartographical developments from the eight to the sixteenth century. It argues that throughout this era Western Christian thinkers and mapmakers used the "mappaemundi" and subsequent printed maps of the world to sustain notions of a broadly based Christian oikoumene, even as the reality of that assertion diminished. Moreover, cartographers incorporated various apostolic and ancient legends, furthering these with new myths, to provide increasingly sophisticated methods for understanding more distant and isolated Christian communities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The book considers a vast array of medieval world maps and later atlases, ranging from manuscripts of Beatus of Liebana's commentary on the Apocalypse to the maps in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia and Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, to trace the legacy of these scattered traditions.

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