Zoology in early modern culture : intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education /
edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 522 pages)
- Intersections, volume 32-2014 1568-1181 ; .
- Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 32. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; 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 Zoology3 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 SummaryImages 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 Ornithology12 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.
This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. It demonstrates that theology and philology played a pivotal role in the complex formation of this new science.