Wonder & science : imagining worlds in early modern Europe / Mary Baine Campbell.

Wonder and science

Imagining worlds in early modern Europe

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004, ©1999.

xiv, 366 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm

1st printing Cornell pbks.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.

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