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Culture of accidents : unexpected knowledges in early modern England /
Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea--these and other unforeseen "accidents" at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A Narrative Wonder
- Early Modern Accidents and an Aristotelian Tradition
- Exemplary Accidents from Cicero to Jean Calvin
- The Avoidance of Ends in The Comedy of Errors
- Hamlet Interrupted
- Accident and the Invention of Knowledge in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy
- Wonders Taken for Signs: The Blackfriars Accident of 1623.