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Natura loquax : Naturkunde und allegorische Naturdeutung vom Mittelalter bis zur frühen Neuzeit
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ISBN: 3820460454 Year: 1981 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Lang,

Wonders and the order of nature : 1150-1750
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ISBN: 0942299906 0942299914 9780942299915 Year: 1998 Publisher: New-York Zone Books

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Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions―these were the marvels that adorned romances, puzzled philosophers, lured collectors, and frightened the devout. Drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park explore and explain how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals. This is a history of the passions of inquiry, of how wonder sometimes inflamed, sometimes dampened curiosity about nature's best-kept secrets. Refracted through the prism of wonders, the order of nature splinters into a spectrum of orders, a tour of possible worlds

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