TY - BOOK ID - 143379 TI - Wonders and the order of nature : 1150-1750 AU - Daston, Lorraine AU - Park, Katharine AU - Zone books PY - 1998 SN - 0942299906 0942299914 9780942299915 PB - New-York Zone Books DB - UniCat KW - History of civilization KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1300-1399 KW - Western Europe KW - Science KW - Science, Medieval. KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - History. KW - wonders KW - anno 1200-1799 KW - anno 1100-1199 KW - Curiosités et merveilles naturelles KW - Sciences KW - Sciences médiévales KW - Philosophie des sciences KW - History of Europe KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - 231.731 KW - 094:5 KW - 7.074 KW - 7.074 Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars KW - Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars KW - 094:5 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen KW - Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen KW - 231.731 Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten KW - Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten KW - Nature KW - Art fantastique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143379 AB - 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 ER -