Zoology in early modern culture : intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education / [Electronic resource]
edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith ; contributors, Tamás Demete [and eight others].
- 1 online resource (546 pages) : illustrations.
- Intersections, Volume 32 1568-1181 ; .
- Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 32. .
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
Introduction Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education -- Intersections of Zoology, Religion and Politics in Antiquity -- 1. Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte in Politik und Religion: Plinius’ Zoologie und der römische Imperialismus With an English Summary -- The Order of Nature: Early Modern Views on Classification and Generation, and Their Theological, Ideological and Empirical Background -- 2. The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern Zoology -- 3. Identification of Herring Species (Clupeidae) in Conrad Gessner’s Ichthyological Works: A Case Study on Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Animal Depiction in the Sixteenth Century -- 4. Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680), die dänische Nation und das Ende der Einhörner With an English Summary -- 5. Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous Generation -- 6. Insects in John Ray’s Natural History and Natural Theology -- 7. Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus. Die Idee der Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche Auferstehung zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit With an English Summary -- Images of Genesis: Intersections of the Visual Arts, Science, and Religion -- 8. Rereading Dürer’s Representations of the Fall of Man -- 9. Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler I and Emblematic Natural History in the Late Sixteenth Century -- 10. Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant Savery -- Symbolic Use of Animals and Political Education -- 11. Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political Ornithology -- 12. Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung. Die Theriobulia des böhmischen Humanisten Johannes Dubravius With an English Summary -- Physiology and Political Ideology -- 13. From Physiology to Political Ideology: The Images of Man in Early Modern Scotland -- Index Nominum -- Index Animalium -- Index of Animals.