TY - BOOK ID - 19374083 TI - Wonder and Science : Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe PY - 2016 SN - 0801436486 1501705067 1501705059 9781501705069 9780801436482 0801489180 9780801489181 9781501705052 PB - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Imaginary places KW - Cosmography KW - Ethnology KW - Philosophy and science KW - Wonder (Philosophy) KW - History - General KW - History & Archaeology KW - Early works to 1800 KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Science and philosophy KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Cities, Imaginary KW - Fictitious places KW - Imaginary cities KW - Imaginary islands KW - Islands, Imaginary KW - Places, Imaginary KW - Lieux imaginaires KW - Cosmographie KW - History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Europe KW - Intellectual life KW - Cosmology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Science KW - Philosophy KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Anthropologie sociale et culturelle KW - Philosophie et sciences KW - Etonnement (Philosophie) KW - Ouvrages avant 1800 KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Ciencia KW - Filosofía KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Filosofía y ciencias KW - Ciencias y filosofía KW - Sistemas, Teoría de los KW - Mecanicismo (Filosofía) KW - Semántica (Filosofía) KW - Positivismo KW - Conocimiento, Teoría del UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19374083 AB - 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. ER -