Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston, Katherine Park

Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750

Lorraine Daston, Katherine Park

512 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction art history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems ...

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