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Wonder & science: imagining worlds in early modern Europe
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Wonder & science: imagining worlds in early modern Europe

Mary Baine Campbell
acls fellows' publications, Cornell University Press
1999

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16th century 17th century 18th century Cosmography Early works to 1800 History and criticism Imaginary places Intellectual life Literature and science Philosophy and science Wonder (Philosophy) European History Intellectual History Ethnology Europe History
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds-geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science.

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