Political ecologies in the Renaissance
Contributors: Ramirez, Cym; Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Publisher: Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Science; Bibliography; Exhibitions; Rare books; Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Columbia University
Other titles: CU Libraries exhibitions--Political ecologies in the Renaissance
Description: Political Ecologies in the Renaissance brings together eleven scientific texts from Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It features canonical and non-canonical science books and covers seven topics: mining, magnetism, navigation, astronomy, the art of war, hydraulics and hydrostatics, and astrology. Each of the texts featured here focuses on human engagement with the natural world, whether it be through observation, experimentation, and/or the manipulation of natural resources. But the texts do not only represent early examples of scientific culture; rather, they are politically resonant, for man's use of natural resources and scientists' observations of the world around them had a profound impact on the early modern world, and provoked and/or enabled religious, social, and political controversies.  Many of the papers in the "Commons and Collectivities: Political Ecologies in the Renaissance" conference home in on man's relationship with the natural world and its political implications, and this online exhibition is meant to complement those essays.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed Apr. 26, 2011).

"Exhibit curator, Cym Ramirez and Ashley Streeter."

Mode of access: World Wide Web.