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Aesthetic Science : Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720 / Alexander Wragge-Morley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wragge-Morley, Alexander, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ray, John, 1627-1705.
- Ray, John.
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Boyle, Robert.
- Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712.
- Grew, Nehemiah.
- Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.
- Hooke, Robert.
- Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
- Willis, Thomas.
- Royal Society (Great Britain).
- Science--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Science.
- Science--Aesthetics.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Senses and sensation--Great Britain.
- Senses and sensation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780226681054
- 022668105X
- OCLC:
- 1151185979
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