The Marvels of the World (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
Redaktion: Bushnell, Rebecca

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Produktbeschreibung

Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward nature as simple or univocal.

Gathering together medical texts, herbals, and how-to books, as well as scientific, religious, philosophical, and poetic works dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment, the anthology explores both mainstream and unconventional thinking about the natural world. Its seven parts focus on philosophy and science; plants; animals; weather and climate; ways of inhabiting the land; gardens and gardening; and European encounters with the wider world. Each section and each of the book's selections is prefaced with a helpful introduction by volume editor Rebecca Bushnell that weaves connections among these compelling pieces of the past. The early writers collected here wrote with extraordinary openness about ways of coexisting with the nonhuman forces that shaped them, Bushnell demonstrates, even as they sought to control and exploit their environment. Taken as a whole, The Marvels of the World reveals how many of these early writers cared as much about the natural world as we do today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812297812
• Artikelnr.: 60534700

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Bushnell is the School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Emerita Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens among other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Natural Philosophy and Natural Knowledge Hebrew Bible
Genesis 1 Aristotle
Physics Lucretius
De rerum natura
or On the Nature of Things Pliny the Elder
Naturalis historia
or Natural History
On the Nature of the Earth Avicenna
The Canon of Medicine
On the Elements Hildegard of Bingen
Causae et curae
or Causes and Cures Alain de Lille
De planctu naturae
or The Complaint of Nature Roger Bacon
Opus majus
or Greater Work Saint Thomas Aquinas
Quaestiones disputatae de potentia dei
or Disputed Questions on the Power of God Pseudo-Albertus Magnus
The Book of the Secrets of Albertus Magnus Giambattista della Porta
Magia naturalis
or Natural Magic Guillaume du Bartas
La sepmaine ou creation du monde
or Divine Weeks and Works
On the Seventh Day Hugh Platt
Floraes Paradise Francis Bacon
Novum organum
or New Organon
and New Atlantis Hannah Wolley
The Ladies Directory Margaret Cavendish
The Blazing World Thomas Sprat
History of the Royal Society Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
"First Dream" Part 2. Plants Theophrastus
De causis plantarum
or On the Causes of Plants Aristotle
De anima
or Of the Soul Dioscorides
De materia medica
or Herbal Pliny the Elder
Naturalis historia
or Natural History
On Flowers Pseudo-Apuleius
The Old English Herbarium Geoffrey Chaucer
The Legend of Good Women Pierre de Ronsard
"Ode to Cassandra" Leonhart Fuchs
De historia stirpium
or On the History of Plants William Turner
A New Herbal John Gerard
The Herbal or General History of Plants Guillaume Du Bartas
La sepmaine ou creation du monde
or Divine Weeks and Works
On Aconite William Lawson
A New Orchard and Garden
On the Cultivation of Trees John Parkinson
Paradisi in Sole: Paradisus Terrestris
On Auriculas George Herbert
"The Flower" Ralph Austen
A Treatise of Fruit Trees
and The Spiritual Use of an Orchard or Garden of Fruit Trees Johanna St. John
Manuscript Recipes Samuel Gilbert
Florist's Vade-Mecum
On Auriculas Part 3. Animals Aristotle
Historia animalium
or The History of Animals Pliny the Elder
Naturalis historia
or Natural History
On Animals Physiologus Bartholomaeus Anglicus
De proprietatibus rerum
or On the Properties of Things Second-Family Bestiary Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Geoffrey Chaucer
The Parliament of Fowls Marie de France
Fables John Lydgate
"The Debate of the Horse
Goose
and Sheep" Anselm Turmeda
The Disputation of the Donkey Michel de Montaigne
"An Apology for Raymond Sebond" John Caius
Of English Dogges Thomas Johnson
Cornucopiae Edward Topsell
The History of Four-Footed Beasts Gervase Markham
Markham's Masterpiece Hester Pulter
"The Ugly Spider" Richard Lovelace
"The Snail" Margaret Cavendish
Grounds of Natural Philosophy Robert Hooke
Micrographia Part 4. Weather
Climate
and Seasons Hippocrates
Airs
Waters
Places Aristotle
Meteorologica
or Meteorology Virgil
Georgics
Book 1
On the Storm Pseudo-Aristotle
Secreta secretorum
or The Secret of Secrets Avicenna
The Canon of Medicine
On Climate Wandalbert of Prüm
On the Names
Signs
Times of Planting
and Qualities of Weather of the Twelve Months William Ram
Rams Little Dodoen Thomas Tusser
An Hundredth Points of Good Husbandrie William Shakespeare
King Lear Amelia Lanyer
"The Description of Cookham" William Shakespeare
The Tempest Thomas Jackson
The Raging Tempest Stilled Thomas Sprat and Robert Hooke
History of the Royal Society
On Weather Samuel Gilbert
Florist's Vade-Mecum
Instructions for July Part 5. Inhabiting the Land Theocritus
Idyll 7 Virgil
Eclogue 1 Virgil
Georgics
On Farming Columella
Res rustica
or On Agriculture
On Farming Walter of Henley
Dite de hosbondrie
or Boke of Husbandry William Langland
Piers Plowman Second Shepherd's Play
from the Wakefield Mystery Plays Jacopo Sannazaro
Arcadia Thomas More
Utopia Thomas Tusser
Five Hundredth Points of Good Husbandrie William Harrison
Description of England Edmund Spenser
The Shephearde's Calendar Gervase Markham
The English Husbandman
On Farming Ben Jonson
"To Penshurst" Mary Wroth
Urania Robert Herrick
"The Hock-Cart
or Harvest Home" Walter Blith
The English Improver Improved Part 6. Gardens and Gardening Columella
Res rustica
or On Agriculture
On Gardens Pietro de' Crescenzi
Liber ruralium commodorum
or Book of Rural Commodity Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun
Le roman de la rose
or The Romance of the Rose Nicolas Bollard
On Planting and Grafting Thomas Hill
The Gardener's Labyrinth Robert Laneham
Description of the Garden at Kenilworth Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Gervase Markham
The English Husbandman
On Grafting William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale William Lawson
A New Orchard and Garden and The Countrie Housewife's Garden
On Domestic Gardening John Parkinson
Paradisi in Sole: Paradisus Terrestris
On Nature and Gardening Mary Somerset
Duchess of Beaufort
Description of Her Garden René Rapin
Hortorum Libri IV
or Of Gardens Andrew Marvell
"The Mower Against Gardens" Hester Pulter
"The Snail
the Tulip
and the Bee" John Evelyn
Elysium Britannicum
or The Royal Gardens John Worlidge
Systema Horticulturae
or The Art of Gardening in Three Books Part 7. Outlandish Natural Worlds Pliny the Elder
Naturalis historia
or Natural History
On Arabia
Ethiopia
and the Fortunate Isles John Mandeville
Travels Leo Africanus
Della descrittione dell'Africa
or Description of Africa Jean de Léry
Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre de Brésil
or History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil Thomas Harriot
Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Walter Raleigh
Discovery of the Large
Rich
and Beautiful Empire of Guiana Michael Drayton
"Ode: To the Virginian Voyage" John Parkinson
Theatrum Botanicum Thomas Sprat
History of the Royal Society
Observations on Java Aphra Behn
Oroonoko
or The Royal Slave: A True History Recommended Reading and Bibliography Permissions to Reprint Index