Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine J. Daston and Katharine Park
English | 1998 | ISBN-10: 0942299906, 0942299914 | PDF | 512 pages | 17,9 MB
Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature.