 | Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe Subjects: Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Imaginary places -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism; Cosmography -- Early works to 1800 -- History and crit; 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. Mary Baine Campbell is Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600, also from Cornell, in addition to two books of poetry. |
