Thinking on earthquakes in early modern Europe : firm beliefs on shaky ground / Rienk Vermij.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vermij, Rienk, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earthquakes--Europe--History--16th century.

Earthquakes.

Earthquakes--Europe--History--17th century.

Natural disasters--Europe--History.

Natural disasters.

Earthquakes--Social aspects.

Civilization.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Scientific, philosophical, and religious traditions up to the Renaissance p. 9

1 Experiencing earthquakes p. 11

Fear and panic p. 12

Piety p. 15

Curiosity p. 17

2 Reading on earthquakes: explanations and interpretations up to the end of the Renaissance p. 21

Religious traditions p. 22

Ancient philosophers p. 25

The discussion of earthquakes in the scholastic tradition p. 27

Wonders in Aristotelian philosophy p. 30

Related phenomena: volcanoes and landslides p. 33

3 Writing on earthquakes: the available information p. 37

Newsletters and pamphlets p. 38

Histories p. 42

4 Earthquakes in Renaissance scholarship p. 49

Earthquakes in moral philosophy p. 51

Physicians and subterranean fire p. 55

Impact on traditional learning p. 59

Attempts at a new philosophy of nature p. 60

Part II Early modern confessionalized science p. 65

5 The assault on naturalism p. 67

The interpretation of portents p. 67

The radicals p. 69

6 The emergence of a science of signs p. 75

The comet of 1531 p. 75

The Wittenberg interpretation of prodigies: Camerarius and Melanchthon p. 77

The Catholic interpretation of portents: Nausea p. 79

Compilations of prodigies p. 82

Portents and miracles in Church history p. 86

7 Prodigies in Reformation scholarship p. 92

The Wittenberg tradition in meteorology in the sixteenth century p. 93

Lutheran meteorology in the seventeenth century p. 96

Other Protestant denominations p. 98

8 Miracles and meteorology among Catholic scholars p. 104

Jesuit meteorology p. 105

Non-Jesuit works p. 111

9 Reactions to earthquakes in the sixteenth century: the emergence of a discourse p. 114

The earthquake of Ferrara (1570) p. 115

The earthquake in the Streets of Dover (1580) p. 120

The earthquake of Vienna (1590) p. 123

10 Interpreting earthquakes in the seventeenth century p. 130

Protestants: sermons and edifying treatises p. 130

Catholics: processions and histories p. 136

11 Marginalized approaches p. 142

Spiritual interpretations p. 142

Scepticism, libertinism, stoicism p. 147

Popular naturalism p. 150

Part III The rise of modern empiricism p. 155

12 New sources of information and the rise of a scientific public p. 157

A widening world p. 158

New forms of publication, new means of information p. 161

13 New observations and theories: the non-confessional investigation of nature p. 166

The new empiricism of the seventeenth century p. 167

Volcanoes, earthquakes, and subterranean conducts p. 170

The motion of the earth p. 174

Mapping strength and direction p. 175

A plethora of theories p. 177

14 Confessionalized natural philosophy in the age of the new sciences p. 185

Jesuit authors on subterranean fire and the constitution of the earth p. 186

New tendencies at protestant universities p. 188

Protestant lay philosophers p. 191

The Deluge, the Bible, and the rise of physico-theology p. 194

15 Earthquakes in the religious discourse of the late seventeenth century p. 203

Churches, saints, and the Italian earthquake of 1703 p. 203

The central European earthquake of 1690 p. 208

The earthquake of 1692 in the low countries and England p. 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781000258899

1000258890

Publisher Number:

40030205182

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