Campbell, Mary B., 1954-

Wonder & science imagining worlds in early modern Europe / [electronic resource] : Wonder and science Imagining worlds in early modern Europe Mary Baine Campbell. - 1st printing Cornell pbks. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004, c1999. - xiv, 366 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm. - ACLS Fellows' publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/

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

Introduction -- Imagination and Discipline. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America, Part I. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- Alternative Worlds. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- The Arts of Anthropology. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child. I. pt. I. II. III. pt. II. IV. V. VI. pt. III. VII. VIII. IX.

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