The Marvels of the World : An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700 /

Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bushnell, Rebecca (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Colección:Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
Temas:
Natural history literature > Early works to 1800.
Nature in literature.
Nature > Literary collections.
Literature (Scholarly).
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General.
Cultural Studies.
Literature.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I Natural Philosophy and Natural Knowledge
  • Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1
  • Aristotle, Physics
  • Lucretius, De rerum natura, or On the Nature of Things
  • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, or Natural History, On the Nature of the Earth
  • Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine, On the Elements
  • Hildegard of Bingen, Causae et curae, or Causes and Cures
  • Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae, or The Complaint of Nature
  • Roger Bacon, Opus majus, or Greater Work
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones disputatae de potentia dei, or Disputed Questions on the Power of God
  • Pseudo- Albertus Magnus, The Book of the Secrets of Albertus Magnus
  • Giambattista della Porta, Magia naturalis, or Natural Magic
  • Guillaume du Bartas, La sepmaine ou creation du monde, or Divine Weeks and Works, On the Seventh Day
  • Hugh Platt, Floraes Paradise
  • Francis Bacon, Novum organum, or New Organon, and New Atlantis
  • Hannah Wolley, The Ladies Directory
  • Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World
  • Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, "First Dream"
  • PART II Plants
  • Theophrastus, De causis plantarum, or On the Causes of Plants
  • Aristotle, De anima, or Of the Soul
  • Dioscorides, De materia medica, or Herbal
  • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, or Natural History, On Flowers
  • Pseudo- Apuleius, The Old En glish Herbarium
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
  • Pierre de Ronsard, "Ode to Cassandra"
  • Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium, or On the History of Plants
  • William Turner, A New Herbal
  • John Gerard, The Herbal or General History of Plants
  • Guillaume du Bartas, La sepmaine ou creation du monde, or Divine Weeks and Works, On Aconite
  • William Lawson, A New Orchard and Garden, On the Cultivation of Trees
  • John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole: Paradisus Terrestris, On Auriculas
  • George Herbert, "The Flower"
  • Ralph Austen, A Treatise of Fruit Trees, and The Spiritual Use of an Orchard or Garden of Fruit Trees
  • Johanna St. John, Manuscript Recipes
  • Samuel Gilbert, Florist's Vade- Mecum, On Auriculas
  • PART III Animals
  • Aristotle, Historia animalium, or The History of Animals
  • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, or Natural History, On Animals
  • Physiologus
  • Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, or On the Properties of Things
  • Second- Family Bestiary
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowls
  • Marie de France, Fables
  • John Lydgate, "The Debate of the Horse, Goose, and Sheep"
  • Anselm Turmeda, The Disputation of the Donkey
  • Michel de Montaigne, "An Apology for Raymond Sebond"
  • John Caius, Of English Dogges
  • Thomas Johnson, Cornucopiae
  • Edward Topsell, The History of Four- Footed Beasts
  • Gervase Markham, Markham's Masterpiece
  • Hester Pulter, "The Ugly Spider"
  • Richard Lovelace, "The Snail"
  • Margaret Cavendish, Grounds of Natu ral Philosophy
  • Robert Hooke, Micrographia
  • PART IV Weather, Climate, and Season
  • Hippocrates, Airs, Waters, Places
  • Aristotle, Meteorologica, or Meteorology
  • Virgil, Georgics, Book 1, On the Storm
  • Pseudo- Aristotle, Secreta secretorum, or The Secret of Secrets
  • Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine, On Climate
  • Wandalbert of Prüm, On the Names, Signs, Times of Planting, and Qualities of Weather of the Twelve Months
  • William Ram, Rams Little Dodoen
  • Thomas Tusser, An Hundredth Pointes of Good Husbandrie
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear
  • Amelia Lanyer, "The Description of Cookham"
  • William Shakespeare, The Tempest
  • Thomas Jackson, The Raging Tempest Stilled
  • Thomas Sprat and Robert Hooke, History of the Royal Society, On Weather
  • Samuel Gilbert, Florist's Vade- Mecum, Instructions for July
  • PART V Inhabiting the Land
  • Theocritus, Idyll 7
  • Virgil, Eclogue 1
  • Virgil, Georgics, On Farming
  • Columella, Res rustica, or On Agriculture, On Farming
  • Walter of Henley, Dite de hosbondrie, or Boke of Husbandrye
  • William Langland, Piers Plowman
  • Second Shepherd's Play, from the Wakefield Mystery Plays
  • Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia
  • Thomas More, Utopia
  • Thomas Tusser, Five Hundredth Pointes of Good Husbandrie
  • William Harrison, Description of England
  • Edmund Spenser, The Shephearde's Calendar
  • Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman, On Farming
  • Ben Jonson, "To Penshurst"
  • Mary Wroth, Urania
  • Robert Herrick, "The Hock- Cart, or Harvest Home"
  • Walter Blith, The English Improver Improved
  • PART VI Gardens and Gardening
  • Columella, Res rustica, or On Agriculture, On Gardens
  • Piero de' Crescenzi, Liber ruralium commodorum, or Book of Rural Commodity
  • Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le roman de la rose, or The Romance of the Rose
  • Nicolas Bollard, On Planting and Grafting
  • Thomas Hill, The Gardener's Labyrinth
  • Robert Laneham, Description of the Garden at Kenilworth
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
  • Gervase Markham, The En glish Husbandman, On Grafting
  • William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
  • William Lawson, A New Orchard and Garden and The Countrie House wife's Garden, On Domestic Gardening
  • John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole: Paradisus Terrestris, On Nature and Gardening
  • Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, Description of Her Garden
  • René Rapin, Hortorum Libri IV, or Of Gardens
  • Andrew Marvell, "The Mower Against Gardens"
  • Hester Pulter, "The Snail, the Tulip, and the Bee"
  • John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens
  • John Worlidge, Systema Horticulturae, or The Art of Gardening in Three Books
  • PART VII Outlandish Natural Worlds
  • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, or Natu ral History, On Arabia, Ethiopia, and the Fortunate Isles
  • John Mandeville, Travels
  • Leo Africanus, Della descrittione dell'Africa, or Description of Africa
  • Jean de Léry, Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre de Brésil, or History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
  • Thomas Harriot, Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
  • Walter Raleigh, Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana
  • Michael Drayton, "Ode: To the Virginian Voyage"
  • John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum
  • Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society, Observations on Java
  • Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History
  • Recommended Reading and Bibliography
  • Permissions to Reprint
  • Index

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