Title Encountering water in early modern Europe and beyond : redefining the universe through natural philosophy, religious reformations, and sea voyaging / Lindsay J. Starkey

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures. Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Why Water? -- 1. Athens and Jerusalem on Water -- 2. Gathering Water in Exegetical Texts -- 3. Defining Water in Natural Philosophical Texts -- 4. Describing and Depicting Water in Cosmographical and Geographical Texts -- 5. Water in Newly Rediscovered Ancient and Medieval Texts -- 6. Exploring the Created Universe through Water -- 7. Sea Voyages and the Water-Earth Relationship -- Afterword : The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis -- General Bibliography -- Index Summary Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, particularly sixteenth-century Europeans were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why sixteenth-century Europeans were so interested in water's failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the Southern Hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth's ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late Analysis Water, Creation, Reformation, sea voyages, blue humanities, oceanography, early modern Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 9, 2020) Subject Discoveries in geography -- History -- 16th century Reformation. Religion and science -- History -- 16th century Water -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Water -- Social aspects -- Europe Reformation. European history. Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. Maritime history. Historical geography. Religion and science. History of science. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Renaissance. Discoveries in geography Reformation Religion and science Water -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Water -- Social aspects SUBJECT Southern Hemisphere -- Discovery and exploration -- History -- 16th century Subject Europe Southern Hemisphere Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789048541058 9048541050

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