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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Starkey, Lindsay J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction : why water? -- Athens and Jerusalem on water -- Gathering water in exegetical texts -- Defining water in natural philosophical texts -- Describing and depicting water in cosmographical and geographical texts -- Water in newly rediscovered ancient and medieval texts -- Exploring the created universe through water -- Sea voyages and the water-earth relationship -- Afterword : the redefinition of the universe and the twenty-first-century water crisis. 
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