Authors: Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park
“Wonders and the Order of Nature” is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used the passion and its objects to envision themselves and the natural world.
Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions — these were the marvels that adorned romances and frightened the devout.
Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park explain how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals.
