Description |
1 online resource (250 pages) |
Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Physico- Theology, Natural Philosophy, and Sensory Experience -- 2. An Empiricism of Imperceptible Entities -- 3. In Search of Lost Designs -- 4. Verbal Picturing -- 5. Natural Philosophy and the Cultivation of Taste -- Conclusion. Embodied Aesthetics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Ray, John, 1627-1705.
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712.
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Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.
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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675 fast |
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Ray, John, 1627-1705 fast |
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Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 fast |
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Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712 fast |
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 fast |
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Royal Society (Great Britain)
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SUBJECT |
Royal Society (Great Britain) |
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Royal Society (Great Britain) fast |
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Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Science -- Aesthetics.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Senses and sensation.
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Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Science -- history
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Esthetics -- history
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Empiricism -- history
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Sensation
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History, 17th Century
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History, 18th Century
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epistemology.
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SCIENCE -- General.
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Science -- Aesthetics
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Science
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United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
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Great Britain
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
022668105X |
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9780226681054 |
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