Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry...
Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry is simultaneously a history of the evolving collective sensibility of naturalists. Pursued in tandem, these interwoven histories show how the two sides of knowledge, objective order and subjective sensibility, were obverse and reverse of the same coin rather than opposed to one another."-- From the IntroductionWonders 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 that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions--these were the marvels that adorned romances, puzzled philosophers, lured collectors, and frightened the devout. Drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park explore and explain how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals. This is a history of the passions of inquiry, of how wonder sometimes inflamed, sometimes dampened curiosity about nature's best-kept secrets. Refracted through the prism of wonders, the order of nature splinters into a spectrum of orders, a tour of possible worlds.
作者简介
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Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the coauthor (with Katharine Park) of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 and (with Peter Galison) Objectivity and the editor of Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science, a...
Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the coauthor (with Katharine Park) of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 and (with Peter Galison) Objectivity and the editor of Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science, all three published by Zone Books.
Katharine Park's book Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books, 1998), coauthored with Lorraine Daston, won the Pfizer Prize for the best book in the history of science. She is Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
目录
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Part 1 The topography of wonder: marvels on the margins
wonders of creation
prodigious individuals and marvellous kinds
wonder and belief
Part 2 The properties of things: collecting wonders
artificial marvels
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Part 1 The topography of wonder: marvels on the margins
wonders of creation
prodigious individuals and marvellous kinds
wonder and belief
Part 2 The properties of things: collecting wonders
artificial marvels
wonders at court
Part 3 Wonder among the philosophers: the philosophers against wonder
curiosity and the preternatural
making wonders cease
Part 4 marvellous particulars: marvellous therapeutics
preternatural history
preternatural philosophy
Part 5 Monsters - a case study: horror - monsters as prodigies
pleasure - monsters as sport
repugnance - monsters as errors
Part 6 Strange facts: Baconian reforms
strange facts in learned societies
the sociability of strange facts
the credibility of strange facts
Part 7 Wonders of art, wonders of nature: art and nature opposed
the wonders of art and nature displayed
the wonders of art and nature conjoined
nature as artist, nature as art
Part 8 The passions of inquiry: ravening curiosity
wonder and curiosity allied
gawking wonder
Part 9 The enlightenment and the anti-marvellous: the unholy Trinity - enthusiasms, superstition, imagination
vulgarity and the love of the marvellous
nature's decorum
the wistful counter-enlightenment.
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Rene Descartes called wonder the first of the passions, "a sudden surprise of the soul which makes it tend to consider attentively those objects which seem to it rare and extraordinary." Francis Bacon included a "history of marvels" in his program for reforming natural philosophy. Their focus on wonder and wonders in the study of nature marked a unique moment in the history of European natural philosophy, unprecedented and unrepeated. But before and after this moment, wonder and wonders hovered at the edges of scientific inquiry. Indeed, they defined those edges, both objectively and subjectively. Wonders as objects marked the outermost limits of the natural. Wonder as a passion registered the line between the known and the unknown. (查看原文)
A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is therefore also a history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry is also a history of the evolving collective sensibility of naturalists. Pursued in tandem, these interwoven histories show how the two sides of knowledge, objective order and subjective sensibility, were obverse and reverse of the same coin rather than opposed to one another. (查看原文)
0 有用 sanbilly 2018-01-16 04:11:34
wonders are good to think with.
1 有用 Finn 2021-03-10 06:52:02
看完了，写得挺好，可是我的作业还是没什么进展…
0 有用 呦鸣 2020-04-30 18:16:37
有野心也有趣味的作品，开先河之作
1 有用 やす 2016-12-18 08:19:26
前言就差点看哭了(??)我也想在seminar上遇到Daston Lorraine和Katharine Park.......
0 有用 felsina 2020-12-11 10:51:28
写得真是非常好，但相关课题看多了，又觉得这本书没有那么惊艳了。和其他一些处理同时期科学史的著作相比，这本的特点在于悬置有关重大思想事件的因果分析（科学革命），用“wonder”进行对一个长时段的纵向切面，来展开一条贯连的比较凌空概览角度的谱系，总体来说非常成功。另外从立论的角度，这本书最大的贡献大概在于提出preternatural philosophy作为贯穿中世纪和近代早期自然哲学演进的一个核... 写得真是非常好，但相关课题看多了，又觉得这本书没有那么惊艳了。和其他一些处理同时期科学史的著作相比，这本的特点在于悬置有关重大思想事件的因果分析（科学革命），用“wonder”进行对一个长时段的纵向切面，来展开一条贯连的比较凌空概览角度的谱系，总体来说非常成功。另外从立论的角度，这本书最大的贡献大概在于提出preternatural philosophy作为贯穿中世纪和近代早期自然哲学演进的一个核心纽带吧，其中的分析也非常清晰而有益。 (展开)
0 有用 Tairman 2021-08-28 00:11:28
服，各个方面
0 有用 momo 2021-06-17 04:15:12
SCT, Conclusion: The Enlightenment and the Anti-Marvelous
1 有用 Finn 2021-03-10 06:52:02
看完了，写得挺好，可是我的作业还是没什么进展…
0 有用 felsina 2020-12-11 10:51:28
写得真是非常好，但相关课题看多了，又觉得这本书没有那么惊艳了。和其他一些处理同时期科学史的著作相比，这本的特点在于悬置有关重大思想事件的因果分析（科学革命），用“wonder”进行对一个长时段的纵向切面，来展开一条贯连的比较凌空概览角度的谱系，总体来说非常成功。另外从立论的角度，这本书最大的贡献大概在于提出preternatural philosophy作为贯穿中世纪和近代早期自然哲学演进的一个核... 写得真是非常好，但相关课题看多了，又觉得这本书没有那么惊艳了。和其他一些处理同时期科学史的著作相比，这本的特点在于悬置有关重大思想事件的因果分析（科学革命），用“wonder”进行对一个长时段的纵向切面，来展开一条贯连的比较凌空概览角度的谱系，总体来说非常成功。另外从立论的角度，这本书最大的贡献大概在于提出preternatural philosophy作为贯穿中世纪和近代早期自然哲学演进的一个核心纽带吧，其中的分析也非常清晰而有益。 (展开)
0 有用 呦鸣 2020-04-30 18:16:37
有野心也有趣味的作品，开先河之作