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Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond : Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging /
Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, particularly sixteenth-century Europeans were e...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, particularly sixteenth-century Europeans were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why sixteenth-century Europeans were so interested in water's failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the Southern Hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth's ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9789048541058 9783110689556 9783110696295 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704730 9783110704525 9783110696301 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |