The Marvels of the World An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment and concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes t...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2021, ©2021
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Table of Contents:
- PART 1. 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 2. 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 English 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