Wonder and Science - 9780801489181

Wonder and ScienceImagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe\nAuthor(s): Mary Baine Campbell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801489181, 978-0801489181\nSynopsis\nDuring the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worldsgeographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciencesparticularly geography, astronomy, and anthropologyfrom the writing of fiction. Campbell'.