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The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science
Ann Blair
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hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 397 pages, 6 halftones 6 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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 characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural ... Read more
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 characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
397
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
397
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691654386
SKU
V9780691654386
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Reviews for The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science
"Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596) is an enigmatic, prolific writer of works in both Latin and in French. His Universae naturae theatrum [on early modern science] while influential in the seventeenth century, is rarely read today... [Ann Blair corrects this in her] in-depth study of methods, modes of argument, metaphorical imagery, philosophy, theology, science, and reader response to Bodin's 633-page Latin work ... Read more