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Item Details
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THE THEATER OF NATURE
JEAN BODIN AND RENAISSANCE SCIENCE |
| By: |
Ann Blair |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691056757 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691056753 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 August, 1997 |
| Pages: |
382 |
| Description: |
This study of Bodin's "Universae naturae theatrum" reveals how he combined arguments from reason, experience and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on pious, often biblical, solutions. |
| Synopsis: |
The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characteristic of much late Renaissance science. |
| Illustrations: |
6 halftones 6 line illus. 1 table |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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