Wonder & Science
Subtitle: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801489181
Subjects: History of science; Western Europe - General; History - General History; History: World; Europe; History; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Europe - General; European - General; Cosmography; Early works to 1800; Ethnology; History and criticism; Imaginary places
First sentence: THE CHAPTERS IN PART 1 illustrate the war of impulses carried on between the times of the French traveler and cosmographer André Thevet (author of a major popular work on the New World, the Singularitez de la France Antarctique [1557]), and the methodical account by Robert Plot, the Ashmolean Museums first curator and Oxford's first professor of chemistry, of a more manageable territory in his Natural History of Oxfordshire (1677).