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Author(s): Rebecca Bushnell Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0812252845   Pages: 384 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: stirkout Upload Date: 9/14/2023 7:36:01 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources 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 toward nature as simple or univocal. Gathering together medical texts, herbals, and how-to books, as well as scientific, religious, philosophical, and poetic works dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment, the anthology explores both mainstream and unconventional thinking about the natural world. Its seven parts focus on philosophy and science plants animals weather and climate ways of inhabiting the land gardens and gardening and European encounters with the wider world. Each section and each of the book's selections is prefaced with a helpful introduction by volume editor Rebecca Bushnell that weaves connections among these compelling pieces of the past. The early writers collected here wrote with extraordinary openness about ways of coexisting with the nonhuman forces that shaped them, Bushnell demonstrates, even as they sought to control and exploit their environment. Taken as a whole, Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3201389 Book https://nitroflare.com/view/93C52615C6E9...   0.00 stirkout Tags: Anthology Architecture Before Landscape Marvels Nature Penn Studies World Writing Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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