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1 online resource. |
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Intersections: Interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture,
1568-1181 ;
Volume 58
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.).
1568-1181 ; Volume 58.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Knowledge and literature: the natural-historical description as epistemic genre / Raphaele Garrod -- Deux recueils d'illustrations ornithologiques : les icones avium (1555 et 1560) de Conrad Gessner et les portraits d'oyseaux (1557) de Pierre Belon / Paul J. Smith -- Feeling divine nature: natural history, emotions and Bernard Palissy's knowledge practice / Susan Broomhall -- L'idee d'un oiseau : l'oiseau de paradis ou la fabrication d'une merveille (xvie et xviie siecles) / Arlette Fruet -- Du nouveau sur la licorne : le role des cabinets de coriosites dans l'avancee des savoirs / Myriam Marrache-Gouraud -- The natural-historical rejuvenation of emblematics: the moral pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin's polyhistor symbolicus / Raphaele Garrod -- Natural history and divertissement: J.B. Faultrier's traitte general des oyseaux (1660) / Isabelle Charmantier -- At the borders of the metropolis: writing the natural history of Paris in the eighteenth century / Stephane Van Damme -- Rewriting Bacon's natural history: Pierre Amboise's translation of Sylva Sylvarum / Dana Jalobeanu -- Bacon, experimental philosophy and French enlightenment natural history / Peter R. Anstey -- La permanence des savoirs antiques dans l'histoire naturelle du second xviiie siecle / Stephane Schmitt -- Empiricism and sensibility in the Australian journal of Theodore Leschenault de la tour (1800-1803) / Paul Gibbard. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Natural history -- France -- History.
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Natural history. |
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France. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Garrod, Raphaële, editor.
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Smith, P. J. (Paul J.), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Natural history in early modern France. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004375697 (DLC) 2018026506 |
| ISBN |
9789004375703 (electronic book) |
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9004375708 (electronic book) |
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9789004375697 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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