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Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions―these were the marvels that adorned romances, puzzled philosophers, lured collectors, and frightened the devout. Drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park explore and explain how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals. This is a history of the passions of inquiry, of how wonder sometimes inflamed, sometimes dampened curiosity about nature's best-kept secrets. Refracted through the prism of wonders, the order of nature splinters into a spectrum of orders, a tour of possible worlds

History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Western Europe --- Science --- Science, Medieval. --- History --- Philosophy --- History. --- wonders --- anno 1200-1799 --- anno 1100-1199 --- Curiosités et merveilles naturelles --- Sciences --- Sciences médiévales --- Philosophie des sciences --- History of Europe --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- 231.731 --- 094:5 --- 7.074 --- 7.074 Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars --- Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars --- 094:5 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- 231.731 Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten --- Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten --- Nature --- Art fantastique