The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things, ranging from pollen in a gust of wind, to a carnivorous pitcher plant, to a shell-like skinned armadillo, and the humans enthralled with them.
The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things, ranging from pollen in a gust of wind, to a carnivorous pitcher plant, to a shell-like skinned armadillo, and the humans enthralled with them.
Mackenzie Cooley is an intellectual historian who studies the uses, abuses, and understandings of the natural world in early modern history. She is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Hamilton College. Anna Toledano is a historian of science and a museum professional. Her academic research focuses on natural history collecting in eighteenth-century Spain and Spanish America. Duygu Y¿ld¿r¿m is a historian of knowledge working on the comparative and connected histories of science and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean and in the Ottoman Empire. She is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Introduction: Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu Y ld r m On the Design Zoë Sadokierski and Katie Dean Part I: Manipulated 1. Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in Mesoamerica Helen Burgos-Ellis 2. Bezoar: Medicine in the Belly of the Beast Mackenzie Cooley 3. Canal: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Control of Water Alexander Statman 4. Ambergris: From Sea to Scent in Renaissance Italy Mackenzie Cooley and Kathryn Biedermann Part II: Felt 5. Squid: Natural History as Food History Whitney Barlow Robles 6. Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory Experiences Duygu Y ld r m 7. Manchineel: Power, Pain, and Knowledge in the Lesser Antilles Thomas C. Anderson 8. Pitcher Plant: Drowning in her Sweet Nectar Elaine Ayers Part III: Preserved 9. Leaf: The Materiality of Early Modern Herbals Julia Heideklang 10. Armadillo: An Animal in Search of a Place Florencia Pierri 11. Bird: Living Names of Félix de Azara's Lost Collection Anna Toledano 12. Brain: Objecthood, Subjecthood, and the Genius of Gauss Nicolaas Rupke Epilogue: Nature's Narratives Paula Findlen Afterword: The Disorder of Things Alan Mikhail Index
Introduction: Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu Y ld r m On the Design Zoë Sadokierski and Katie Dean Part I: Manipulated 1. Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in Mesoamerica Helen Burgos-Ellis 2. Bezoar: Medicine in the Belly of the Beast Mackenzie Cooley 3. Canal: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Control of Water Alexander Statman 4. Ambergris: From Sea to Scent in Renaissance Italy Mackenzie Cooley and Kathryn Biedermann Part II: Felt 5. Squid: Natural History as Food History Whitney Barlow Robles 6. Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory Experiences Duygu Y ld r m 7. Manchineel: Power, Pain, and Knowledge in the Lesser Antilles Thomas C. Anderson 8. Pitcher Plant: Drowning in her Sweet Nectar Elaine Ayers Part III: Preserved 9. Leaf: The Materiality of Early Modern Herbals Julia Heideklang 10. Armadillo: An Animal in Search of a Place Florencia Pierri 11. Bird: Living Names of Félix de Azara's Lost Collection Anna Toledano 12. Brain: Objecthood, Subjecthood, and the Genius of Gauss Nicolaas Rupke Epilogue: Nature's Narratives Paula Findlen Afterword: The Disorder of Things Alan Mikhail Index
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