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Aunque referido básicamente a la botánica, la obra de Ogilvie es interesante por ofrecernos una panorámica general de la historia natural del siglo XVI. El autor, doctor por la Universidad de Chicago, y profesor de historia en la universidad de Massachusets Amherst, está especializado en la época del Renacimiento, la historia de la ciencia, y la historia religiosa. La obra que nos ocupa vio la luz en 2006, aunque la edición que utilizamos es la de bolsillo editada en 2008 por The University Chicago Press. Desde una perspectiva zoológica, es especialmente destacable, dentro del capítulo quinto, el epígrafe titulado Las maravillas del norte, donde la referencia a nuestro entrañable Olao Magno es de rigor.
Indice.
1. Introduction. Setting the Stage: The Invention Natural History in the Renaissance. Natural History and Renaissance Culture. Methodological Problems: Experience and Practice.
2. The World of Renaissance Natural History. Four Generations of Renaissance Naturalists. The Preemninence of Botany. A Collective Enterprise. What made a Naturalist? The Geography of Natural History. Natural History in Local Communities. Shared Activities: Herborizing. The Community of Naturalists and teh Republic of Letters. The Imagined Community. Conclusion.
3. The Humanist Invention of Natural History. The Invention of a Tradition. Nature in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cognitio Historica and Natural History. Humanist Scholarship and Ancient Natural History. Humanist Natural History in Practice: Euricius Cordus. Conclusion: Dioscorides and Renaissance Natural History.
4. A Science of Describing. Experiencing Nature. Reproducing Experience. The Primacy of the Visual. Conclusion: From Local to Universal Knowledge.
5. Common Sense, Classification, and the Catalogue of Nature. The Unexpected Consequences of the Science of Describing. Evaluating the Unknown: Renaissance Naturalists and Travelers´Tales. The Wonders of the North. Epilogue: A New Sensibility?
6. Conclusion: What Was "Renaissance Natural History"?
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Aunque referido básicamente a la botánica, la obra de Ogilvie es interesante por ofrecernos una panorámica general de la historia natural del siglo XVI. El autor, doctor por la Universidad de Chicago, y profesor de historia en la universidad de Massachusets Amherst, está especializado en la época del Renacimiento, la historia de la ciencia, y la historia religiosa. La obra que nos ocupa vio la luz en 2006, aunque la edición que utilizamos es la de bolsillo editada en 2008 por The University Chicago Press. Desde una perspectiva zoológica, es especialmente destacable, dentro del capítulo quinto, el epígrafe titulado Las maravillas del norte, donde la referencia a nuestro entrañable Olao Magno es de rigor.Indice.
1. Introduction. Setting the Stage: The Invention Natural History in the Renaissance. Natural History and Renaissance Culture. Methodological Problems: Experience and Practice.
2. The World of Renaissance Natural History. Four Generations of Renaissance Naturalists. The Preemninence of Botany. A Collective Enterprise. What made a Naturalist? The Geography of Natural History. Natural History in Local Communities. Shared Activities: Herborizing. The Community of Naturalists and teh Republic of Letters. The Imagined Community. Conclusion.
3. The Humanist Invention of Natural History. The Invention of a Tradition. Nature in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cognitio Historica and Natural History. Humanist Scholarship and Ancient Natural History. Humanist Natural History in Practice: Euricius Cordus. Conclusion: Dioscorides and Renaissance Natural History.
4. A Science of Describing. Experiencing Nature. Reproducing Experience. The Primacy of the Visual. Conclusion: From Local to Universal Knowledge.
5. Common Sense, Classification, and the Catalogue of Nature. The Unexpected Consequences of the Science of Describing. Evaluating the Unknown: Renaissance Naturalists and Travelers´Tales. The Wonders of the North. Epilogue: A New Sensibility?
6. Conclusion: What Was "Renaissance Natural History"?
