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Nemesis Divina
Carolus Linnaeus
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Description for Nemesis Divina
Paperback. Translator(s): Miller, Eric. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 249.
Eric Miller's affordable, elegant translation of Nemesis divina by Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) reveals a little-known side of the great natural historian. A classic of Swedish literature that influenced luminaries such as August Strindberg, Nemesis divina was composed over years, apparently for the edification of Linnaeus's wayward son Carl. A surprising field-guide to theodicy, the book explores the occult operation of a Theologia experimentalis, an empirical theology, in the lives of men and women. Many of these people were known to Linnaeus himself. Eric Miller, an award-winning poet and scholar, set Linnaeus's fascinating and eloquent work in a broad ... Read more
Eric Miller's affordable, elegant translation of Nemesis divina by Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) reveals a little-known side of the great natural historian. A classic of Swedish literature that influenced luminaries such as August Strindberg, Nemesis divina was composed over years, apparently for the edification of Linnaeus's wayward son Carl. A surprising field-guide to theodicy, the book explores the occult operation of a Theologia experimentalis, an empirical theology, in the lives of men and women. Many of these people were known to Linnaeus himself. Eric Miller, an award-winning poet and scholar, set Linnaeus's fascinating and eloquent work in a broad ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of America
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761823940
SKU
V9780761823940
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About Carolus Linnaeus
Eric Miller teaches at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Reviews for Nemesis Divina
Charming and original...Eric Miller [makes] the complex and ambivalent thought of Linnaeus more accessible.
Gino L. Di Mitri
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Gino L. Di Mitri
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences