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Zoology in Early Modern Culture : Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education.
Title:
Zoology in Early Modern Culture : Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education.
Author:
Enenkel, Karl A. E. .
ISBN:
9789004279179
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (546 pages)
Series:
Intersections ; v.32

Intersections
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education -- Intersections of Zoology, Religion and Politics in Antiquity -- 1 Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte in Politik und Religion: Plinius' Zoologie und der römische Imperialismus With an English Summary -- The Order of Nature: Early Modern Views on Classification and Generation, and Their Theological, Ideological and Empirical Background -- 2 The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern Zoology -- 3 Identification of Herring Species (Clupeidae) in Conrad Gessner's Ichthyological Works: A Case Study on Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Animal Depiction in the Sixteenth Century -- 4 Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), die dänische Nation und das Ende der Einhörner With an English Summary -- 5 Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous Generation -- 6 Insects in John Ray's Natural History and Natural Theology -- 7 Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus. Die Idee der Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche Auferstehung zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit With an English Summary -- Images of Genesis: Intersections of the Visual Arts, Science, and Religion -- 8 Rereading Dürer's Representations of the Fall of Man -- 9 Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler I and Emblematic Natural History in the Late Sixteenth Century -- 10 Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant Savery -- Symbolic Use of Animals and Political Education -- 11 Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political Ornithology.

12 Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung. Die Theriobulia des böhmischen Humanisten Johannes Dubravius With an English Summary -- Physiology and Political Ideology -- 13 From Physiology to Political Ideology: The Images of Man in Early Modern Scotland -- Index Nominum -- Index Animalium-Index of Animals.
Abstract:
This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. It demonstrates that theology and philology played a pivotal role in the complex formation of this new science.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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