David Beck

Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with 'knowledge' being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317317388
• Artikelnr.: 43437079

Autorenporträt

David Beck is an Academic Technologist and Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick, where his research interests lie in the intellectual culture of England through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a member of Council of the British Society for the History of Science and co-founder of Scientiae, an academic society at the nexus of Renaissance/early-modern studies and history/philosophy of science.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Unity and the Investigation of Nature 1. 'Not a Hundred Sorts of
Beasts, Not Two Hundred of Birds': Universal Language and the Early Modern
End of the World 2 The Moral Physiology of Laughter 3. The Part and the
Whole: Architectonics of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century English Thought
Part 2: God's Two Books 4. The Use of Scripture in the Beast Machine
Controversy 5. Johann Jacob Zimmermann and God's Two Books: Copernican
Cosmology in Lutheran Germany around 1700 6. The Cosmology of Martinus
Szent-Ivany SJ (1633-1705): Some Philological Notes on His Dissertatio
Cosmographica Seu de Mundi Systemate Part 3: Imagination and Reality: Time,
Zoology and Memory 7. May Not Duration Be Represented as Distinctly as
Space? Geography and the Visualization of Time in the Early Eighteenth
Century 8. Early Modern Natural Science as an Agent for Change in
Naturalist Painting: Jacopo Ligozzi's Zoological Illustrations as a Case
Study 9. 'Direct Ideas': The Quotidian Imagination in John Willis's 1618
Memory Theater