Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern ScienceCambridge University Press, 17. veebr 2005 - 250 pages Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation, drove his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. In this illuminating study, Preston examines how the developing essay form, the discourse of scientific experiment, and above all Bacon's model of intellectual progress and cooperation determined the un ique character of his contributions to early modern literature, science and philosophy. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Brownes civility | 10 |
Religio Medici the junior endeavour | 42 |
The civil monument Pseudodoxia Epidemica and investigative culture | 82 |
The laureate of the grave UrneBuriall and the failure of memory | 123 |
The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum a brief excursion into Brownean comedy | 155 |
The epitome of the earth The Garden of Cyrus and verdancy | 175 |
The fruits of natural knowledge the fugitive writings and a conclusion | 211 |
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Aldrovandi ancient animals antiquarian Antiquary authority Bacon Baconian bees behaviour bones Boyle Browne's C. A. Patrides cabinet Cabinet of Curiosities Cambridge University Press Camden catalogue century chapter Christopher Merrett civil claims collection corruption curiosity Digby digression Discourse discussion Donne dramatic monologue dreams Dugdale early early-modern earth England English enquiry errors essay evidence example experimental fossils Garden of Cyrus Goodman Henry Power Huntley ideas imagined insects intellectual investigative John Aubrey John Evelyn judgement Kenelm Digby Keynes kind knowledge learned letter Library literary London Merrett metaphor modern Museum Clausum natural history naturalist neo-Stoic notes observations organised Oxford patterns philosophy plants practice preface Prose Pseudodoxia Epidemica quincunx Religio Medici remarks Renaissance resurrection rhetorical Robbins Robert Robert Hooke Roman Royal Society Samuel Hartlib Science scientific seeds seems Seneca seventeenth Seventeenth-Century signature signaturist Sir Thomas Browne social spoofs Stoic structure things unto Urne-Buriall vulgar Walsingham urns writing