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Ann Blair - The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science - 9780691654386 - V9780691654386
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The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science

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Description for The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science 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 philosophy offered grounds for consensus across religious divides and a vast collection of useful and pleasant information, admired for both its order and its variety. The commonplace book provided a versatile tool for gathering and sorting bits of natural knowledge garnered from a wide array of bookish sources and "experience," fueling a vigorous cycle of text-based science at least through the mid-seventeenth century. The miscellaneous genre of the problemata into which Bodin's text was adapted attracted more popular audiences until even later. To place the Theatrum in its cultural context is also to reveal more clearly the peculiarities of Bodin's philosophical project in this, its final expression. 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. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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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 on natural philosophy. Hers is an exemplary model of a thorough and masterful, multi-faceted history of one book."
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