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1 online resource (xxiv, 522 pages .) |
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text file |
| Series |
Intersections,
1568-1181 ;
volume 32-2014
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 32.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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2 The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern Zoology3 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. |
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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 SummaryImages 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. |
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11 Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political Ornithology12 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. |
| Summary |
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 |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Zoology -- History.
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Zoology. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.
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Smith, P. J. (Paul J.), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zoology in early modern culture. 9789004268234 9004268235 (DLC) 2014023662 (OCoLC)881721391 |
| ISBN |
9789004279179 (electronic book) |
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9004279172 (electronic book) |
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9789004268234 |
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9004268235 |
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