Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750 by Katherine Park, Lorraine Daston

Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750

Katherine Park, Lorraine Daston

512 pages paperback 1998

3 editions

nonfiction art history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems ...

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