Natural history in early modern France the poetics of an epistemic genre / edited by Raphaële Garrod, Paul J. Smith.

Other author Garrod, Raphaële.
Other author Smith, P. J. (Paul J.)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Descriptionxiii, 294 pages : illistration (some colors) ; 25 cm.
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SeriesIntersections: Interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 58 - 2018
Contents Introduction. Knowledge and literature: the natural-historical description as epistemic genre / Raphaele Garrod -- Deux recueils d'illustrations ornithologiques : les icones avium (1555 et 1560) de Conrad Gessner et les portraits d'oyseaux (1557) de Pierre Belon / Paul J. Smith -- Feeling divine nature: natural history, emotions and Bernard Palissy's knowledge practice / Susan Broomhall -- L'idee d'un oiseau : l'oiseau de paradis ou la fabrication d'une merveille (xvie et xviie siecles) / Arlette Fruet -- Du nouveau sur la licorne : le role des cabinets de coriosites dans l'avancee des savoirs / Myriam Marrache-Gouraud -- The natural-historical rejuvenation of emblematics: the moral pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin's polyhistor symbolicus / Raphaele Garrod -- Natural history and divertissement: J.B. Faultrier's traitte general des oyseaux (1660) / Isabelle Charmantier -- At the borders of the metropolis: writing the natural history of Paris in the eighteenth century / Stephane Van Damme -- Rewriting Bacon's natural history: Pierre Amboise's translation of Sylva Sylvarum / Dana Jalobeanu -- Bacon, experimental philosophy and French enlightenment natural history / Peter R. Anstey -- La permanence des savoirs antiques dans l'histoire naturelle du second xviiie siecle / Stephane Schmitt -- Empiricism and sensibility in the Australian journal of Theodore Leschenault de la tour (1800-1803) / Paul Gibbard.
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ISBN9789004375697 (hardback : acid-free paper)

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