What We Are Reading Today: Wonders and the Order of Nature

Authors: Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park “Wonders and the Order of Nature” is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used the passion and its objects to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions — these were the marvels that adorned romances and frightened the devout.

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What We Are Reading Today: Wonders and the Order of Nature
Authors: Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park “Wonders and the Order of Nature” is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used the passion and its objects to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions — these were the marvels that adorned romances and frightened the devout.
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