Wonder & science imagining worlds in early modern Europe

Title
  1. Wonder & science [electronic resource] : imagining worlds in early modern Europe / Mary Baine Campbell.
Published by
  1. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004, c1999.
Author
  1. Campbell, Mary B., 1954-

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Additional authors
  1. American Council of Learned Societies.
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  1. ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
Description
  1. xiv, 366 p. : ill., 1 map; 25 cm.
Uniform title
  1. ACLS Fellows' publications.
  2. ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Alternative title
  1. Wonder and science
  2. Imagining worlds in early modern Europe
Subject
  1. Imaginary places > Early works to 1800 > History and criticism
  2. Cosmography > Early works to 1800 > History and criticism
  3. Ethnology > Early works to 1800 > History and criticism
  4. Philosophy and science > Europe > History
  5. Wonder (Philosophy) > History
  6. Europe > Intellectual life > 16th century
  7. Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century
  8. Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century
Contents
  1. I. Introduction -- pt. I. Imagination and Discipline. II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America, Part I. III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- pt. II. Alternative Worlds. IV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds. V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac. VI. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- pt. III. The Arts of Anthropology. VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters. VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam. IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.
Reproduction (note)
  1. Electronic text and image data.
Author
  1. Campbell, Mary B., 1954-
Title
  1. Wonder & science [electronic resource] : imagining worlds in early modern Europe / Mary Baine Campbell.
Imprint
  1. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004, c1999.
Edition
  1. 1st printing Cornell pbks.
Series
  1. ACLS Fellows' publications.
  2. ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.
Reproduction
  1. Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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  1. Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Added author
  1. American Council of Learned Societies.
Found in:
  1. ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other form:
  1. Original 0801436486 0801489180 (DLC) 99029103
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