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The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ann Blair
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:397
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreHistory of science
ISBN/Barcode 9780691654386
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 6 halftones 6 line illus. 1 table

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 21 March 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of

Reviews

"Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596) is an enigmatic, prolific writer of works in both Latin and in French. His Universae naturae theatrum [on early modern science] while influential in the seventeenth century, is rarely read today... [Ann Blair corrects this in her] in-depth study of methods, modes of argument, metaphorical imagery, philosophy, theology, science, and reader response to Bodin's 633-page Latin work on natural philosophy. Hers is an exemplary model of a thorough and masterful, multi-faceted history of one book."--Seventeenth-Century News