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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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
[2020]
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Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures (3)
Année: 2020 |
| Collection/Revue: | Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Europe
/ Eau (Motif)
/ Philosophie de la nature
/ Exégèse
/ Géographie
/ Récit de voyages
/ Histoire 1450-1600
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Histoire 1450-1650
B Voyage de découverte B Ère moderne B Europe B Philosophie de la nature B Réforme protestante |
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Table des matières Quatrième de couverture Literaturverzeichnis |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description matérielle: | 274 Seiten, Karten |
| ISBN: | 94-6298-873-0 978-94-6298-873-6 |
