Aesthetic science: representing nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720
Introduction -- Physico-theology, natural philosophy, and sensory experience -- An empiricism of imperceptible entities -- In search of lost designs -- Verbal picturing -- Natural philosophy and the cultivation of taste -- Conclusion : embodied aesthetics.
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Chicago London
University of Chicago Press
2020
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| Dans: | Année: 2020 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Royal Society (London)
/ Sciences de la nature
/ Histoire 1650-1720
B Royal Society (London) / Philosophie de la nature / Histoire 1650-1720 B Royal Society (London) / Nature / Image du monde / Histoire 1650-1720 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Royal Society (Great Britain)
B Science (Great Britain) History 17th century B Grew, Nehemiah (1641-1712) B Willis, Thomas (1621-1675) B Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) B Hooke, Robert (1635-1703) B Ray, John (1627-1705) |
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| Résumé: | Introduction -- Physico-theology, natural philosophy, and sensory experience -- An empiricism of imperceptible entities -- In search of lost designs -- Verbal picturing -- Natural philosophy and the cultivation of taste -- Conclusion : embodied aesthetics. "The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. In fact, they practiced a science that depended on harnessing the embodied pleasures and pains that arise from sensory experience. Aesthetic Science reveals how judgments of taste and pleasures played a central role in the formation of consensus in scientific communities and the emergence of what we now understand as scientific objectivity" |
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| Description: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 219-233 Mit Register |
| ISBN: | 022668072X |