The theater of nature
Jean Bodin and Renaissance science
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Author
Publication
1997 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
95,500 words, Guess
Page Count
382 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1001205M
- ISBN-100691056757
- OCLC Control Number36074379
- Library of Congress Control Number96040164
- LibraryThing3571851
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- Goodreads1172952
Classifications
- DDC113/.092
- LCCQ125.2 .B53 1997
- LCCQ125.2.B53 1997
Description
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.
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