Main entry:

Daston, Lorraine, 1951-

Title & Author:

Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750 / Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 1998.

Description:

511 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-497) and index.
Introduction : at the limit -- I. The topography of wonder -- Marvels on the margins -- Wonders of creation -- Prodigious individuals and marvelous kinds -- Wonder and belief -- II. The properties of things -- Collecting wonders -- Artificial marvels -- Wonders at Court -- III. Wonder among the philosophers -- The philosophers against wonder -- Curiosity and the preternatural -- Making wonders cease -- IV. Marvelous particulars -- Marvelous therapeutics -- Preternatural history -- Preternatural philosophy -- V. Monsters : a case study -- Horror : monsters as prodigies -- Pleasure : monsters as sport -- Repugnance : monsters as errors -- VI. Strange facts -- Baconian reforms -- Strange facts in learned societies -- The sociability of strange facts -- The credibility of strange facts -- VII. Wonders of art, wonders of nature -- Art and nurture opposed -- The wonders of art and nature displayed -- The wonders of art and nature conjoined -- Nature as artist, nature as art -- VIII. The passions of inquiry -- Ravening curiosity -- Wonder and curiosity allied --Gawking wonder -- IX. The enlightenment and the anti-marvelous -- The unholy trinity : enthusiasm, superstition, imagination -- Vulgarity and the love of the marvelous -- Nature's decorum -- The wistful counter-enlightenment.

Summary:

Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

0942299906
9780942299908
0942299914
9780942299915
(pbk.)
0642299914

Subject:

Science, Medieval.
Science History 18th century.
Science Philosophy History.
Natural History history
Science history
Sciences médiévales.
Sciences Histoire 18e siècle.
Science
Science Philosophy
Naturwissenschaften
Philosophie
Kultur
Wunderglaube
Natur
Wunder
Wonderen.
Milieu.
Natuurwetenschappen.
Curiosities and wonders History
Errors, Scientific History
Natural history Europe Pre-Linnean works
Science History 16th century
Science History 17th century

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Park, Katharine, 1950-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212056
Call No.: Q124.97 .D38 1998
Status: Available