{"product_id":"the-marvels-of-the-world-9780812252842","title":"The Marvels of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward nature as simple or univocal.   Gathering together medical texts, herbals, and how-to books, as well as scientific, religious, philosophical, and poetic works dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment, the anthology explores both mainstream and unconventional thinking about the natural world. Its seven parts focus on philosophy and science; plants; animals; weather and climate; ways of inhabiting the land; gardens and gardening; and European encounters with the wider world. Each section and each of the book's selections is prefaced with a helpful introduction by volume editor Rebe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]n invaluable addition to the growing list of anthologies on this topic, not least because it offers an unusually expansive scope (Antiquity to 1700), but also because its contextual material is enormously readable and informative; each section provides a solid grounding in nature writing that situates the readings topically and with a sense of their position in time and place… Bushnell’s anthology serves to rewrite natural history in important ways, shifting the usual narratives. It also demonstrates how the teleology of human interactions with the landscapes they inhabit is as uncertain, perhaps even as unpredictable, as the particulars of the seasons themselves; and it illustrates how that natural history was inscribed in the soil as well as on the page, by those who toiled as well as those who imagined.\" * Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *\u003cbr\u003e\"Rebecca Bushnell’s anthology offers its readers 112 excerpts of nature writing from antiquity through the late seventeenth century. The product of a seminar she taught at the University of Pennsylvania, this collection of sources immerses readers in a well-curated collection...[T]he very premise of the volume invites us to contemplate genres of writing about nature across the centuries. Bushnell has done a scholarly service by sharing her own work as a teacher of premodern nature writing.\" * Speculum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1. Natural Philosophy and Natural Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle, \u003ci\u003ePhysics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lucretius, \u003ci\u003eDe rerum natura\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eOn the Nature of Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pliny the Elder, \u003ci\u003eNaturalis historia\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e, On the Nature of the Earth\u003cbr\u003e Avicenna, \u003ci\u003eThe Canon of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, On the Elements\u003cbr\u003e Hildegard of Bingen, \u003ci\u003eCausae et curae\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eCauses and Cures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Alain de Lille, \u003ci\u003eDe planctu naturae\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Complaint of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Roger Bacon, \u003ci\u003eOpus majus\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eGreater Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Saint Thomas Aquinas,\u003ci\u003e Quaestiones disputatae de potentia dei\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eDisputed Questions on the Power of God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Secrets of Albertus Magnus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Giambattista della Porta, \u003ci\u003eMagia naturalis\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eNatural Magic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Guillaume du Bartas,\u003ci\u003e La sepmaine ou creation du monde\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eDivine Weeks and Works\u003c\/i\u003e, On the Seventh Day\u003cbr\u003e Hugh Platt, \u003ci\u003eFloraes Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Francis Bacon,\u003ci\u003e Novum organum\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eNew Organon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Atlantis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hannah Wolley, \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies Directory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Cavendish, \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Sprat, \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Royal Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, \"First Dream\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2. Plants\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theophrastus, \u003ci\u003eDe causis plantarum\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003e On the Causes of Plants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle, \u003ci\u003eDe anima\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eOf the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dioscorides, \u003ci\u003eDe materia medica\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eHerbal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pliny the Elder, \u003ci\u003eNaturalis historia\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e, On Flowers\u003cbr\u003e Pseudo-Apuleius, \u003ci\u003eThe Old English Herbarium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Geoffrey Chaucer, \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Good Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pierre de Ronsard, \"Ode to Cassandra\"\u003cbr\u003e Leonhart Fuchs, \u003ci\u003eDe historia stirpium\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eOn the History of Plants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Turner, \u003ci\u003eA New Herbal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Gerard, \u003ci\u003eThe Herbal\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eGeneral History of Plants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Guillaume Du Bartas, \u003ci\u003eLa sepmaine ou creation du monde\u003c\/i\u003e, or\u003ci\u003e Divine Weeks and Works\u003c\/i\u003e, On\u003cbr\u003e Aconite\u003cbr\u003e William Lawson, \u003ci\u003eA New Orchard and Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, On the Cultivation of Trees\u003cbr\u003e John Parkinson, \u003ci\u003eParadisi in Sole: Paradisus Terrestris\u003c\/i\u003e, On Auriculas\u003cbr\u003e George Herbert, \"The Flower\"\u003cbr\u003e Ralph Austen, \u003ci\u003eA Treatise of Fruit Trees, and The Spiritual Use of an Orchard or Garden of Fruit Trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Johanna St. John, Manuscript Recipes\u003cbr\u003e Samuel Gilbert,\u003ci\u003eFlorist's Vade-Mecum\u003c\/i\u003e, On Auriculas\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3. Animals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle, \u003ci\u003eHistoria animalium\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe History of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pliny the Elder, \u003ci\u003eNaturalis historia\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e, On Animals\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhysiologus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bartholomaeus Anglicus, \u003ci\u003eDe proprietatibus rerum\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eOn the Properties of Things\u003cbr\u003e Second-Family Bestiary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Geoffrey Chaucer, \u003ci\u003eThe Parliament of Fowls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Marie de France, \u003ci\u003eFables\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Lydgate, \"The Debate of the Horse, Goose, and Sheep\"\u003cbr\u003e Anselm Turmeda, \u003ci\u003eThe Disputation of the Donkey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Michel de Montaigne, \"An Apology for Raymond Sebond\"\u003cbr\u003e John Caius, \u003ci\u003eOf English Dogges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Johnson,\u003ci\u003e Cornucopiae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Edward Topsell, \u003ci\u003eThe History of Four-Footed Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gervase Markham, \u003ci\u003eMarkham's Masterpiece\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hester Pulter, \"The Ugly Spider\"\u003cbr\u003e Richard Lovelace, \"The Snail\"\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Cavendish, \u003ci\u003eGrounds of Natural Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert Hooke, \u003ci\u003eMicrographia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4. Weather, Climate, and Seasons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hippocrates, \u003ci\u003eAirs, Waters, Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle, \u003ci\u003eMeteorologica\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eMeteorology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Virgil, \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e, Book 1, On the Storm\u003cbr\u003e Pseudo-Aristotle, \u003ci\u003eSecreta secretorum\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Avicenna, \u003ci\u003eThe Canon of Medicine,\u003c\/i\u003e On Climate\u003cbr\u003e Wandalbert of Prüm, \u003ci\u003eOn the Names, Signs, Times of Planting, and Qualities of Weather of the Twelve\u003cbr\u003e Months\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Ram, \u003ci\u003eRams Little Dodoen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Tusser, \u003ci\u003eAn Hundredth Points of Good Husbandrie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Shakespeare, \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Amelia Lanyer, \"The Description of Cookham\"\u003cbr\u003e William Shakespeare, \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Jackson, \u003ci\u003eThe Raging Tempest Stilled\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Sprat and Robert Hooke, \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Royal Society\u003c\/i\u003e, On Weather\u003cbr\u003e Samuel Gilbert, \u003ci\u003eFlorist's Vade-Mecum\u003c\/i\u003e, Instructions for July\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 5. Inhabiting the Land\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theocritus, \u003ci\u003eIdyll 7\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Virgil, \u003ci\u003eEclogue 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Virgil, \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e, On Farming\u003cbr\u003e Columella, \u003ci\u003eRes rustica\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eOn Agriculture\u003c\/i\u003e, On Farming\u003cbr\u003e Walter of Henley, \u003ci\u003eDite de hosbondrie\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eBoke of Husbandry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Langland, \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSecond Shepherd's Play\u003c\/i\u003e, from the \u003ci\u003eWakefield Mystery Plays\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jacopo Sannazaro, \u003ci\u003eArcadia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas More, \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Tusser, \u003ci\u003eFive Hundredth Points of Good Husbandrie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Harrison, \u003ci\u003eDescription of England\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Edmund Spenser, \u003ci\u003eThe Shephearde's Calendar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gervase Markham, \u003ci\u003eThe English Husbandman\u003c\/i\u003e, On Farming\u003cbr\u003e Ben Jonson, \"To Penshurst\"\u003cbr\u003e Mary Wroth, \u003ci\u003eUrania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert Herrick, \"The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home\"\u003cbr\u003e Walter Blith, \u003ci\u003eThe English Improver Improved\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 6. Gardens and Gardening\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Columella, \u003ci\u003eRes rustica\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eOn Agriculture\u003c\/i\u003e, On Gardens\u003cbr\u003e Pietro de' Crescenzi, \u003ci\u003eLiber ruralium commodorum\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eBook of Rural Commodity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, \u003ci\u003eLe roman de la rose\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Romance of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nicolas Bollard, \u003ci\u003eOn Planting and Grafting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Hill, \u003ci\u003eThe Gardener's Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert Laneham, Description of the Garden at Kenilworth\u003cbr\u003e Edmund Spenser, \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gervase Markham, \u003ci\u003eThe English Husbandman\u003c\/i\u003e, On Grafting\u003cbr\u003e William Shakespeare, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Lawson, \u003ci\u003eA New Orchard and Garden and The Countrie Housewife's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, On Domestic\u003cbr\u003e Gardening\u003cbr\u003e John Parkinson, \u003ci\u003eParadisi in Sole: Paradisus Terrestris\u003c\/i\u003e, On Nature and Gardening\u003cbr\u003e Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, Description of Her Garden\u003cbr\u003e René Rapin, \u003ci\u003eHortorum Libri IV\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eOf Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Marvell, \"The Mower Against Gardens\"\u003cbr\u003e Hester Pulter, \"The Snail, the Tulip, and the Bee\"\u003cbr\u003e John Evelyn, \u003ci\u003eElysium Britannicum\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Royal Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Worlidge,\u003ci\u003e Systema Horticulturae\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Gardening in Three Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 7. Outlandish Natural Worlds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pliny the Elder, \u003ci\u003eNaturalis historia\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e, On Arabia, Ethiopia, and the Fortunate Isles\u003cbr\u003e John Mandeville, \u003ci\u003eTravels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Leo Africanus, \u003ci\u003eDella descrittione dell'Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eDescription of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jean de Léry, \u003ci\u003eHistoire d'un voyage fait en la terre de Brésil\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eHistory of a Voyage to the Land of\u003cbr\u003e Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Harriot, \u003ci\u003eBrief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Walter Raleigh, \u003ci\u003eDiscovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Michael Drayton, \"Ode: To the Virginian Voyage\"\u003cbr\u003e John Parkinson, \u003ci\u003eTheatrum Botanicum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Sprat, \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Royal Society\u003c\/i\u003e, Observations on Java\u003cbr\u003e Aphra Behn, \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Royal Slave: A True History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recommended Reading and Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Permissions to Reprint\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405745398103,"sku":"9780812252842","price":67.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812252842.jpg?v=1730493465","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-marvels-of-the-world-9780812252842","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}