Natural things in early modern worlds /
"The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things, ranging from pollen in a gust of wind, to a carnivorous pitcher plant, to a shell-like skinned armadillo, and the humans enthralled with them. Episodes from...
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : natural things in early modern worlds / Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu Yıldırım
- On the design / Zoë Sadokierski and Katie Dean
- Pollen : the sexual life of plants in Mesoamerica / Helen Burgos-Ellis
- Bezoar : medicine in the belly of the beast / Mackenzie Cooley
- Canal : cross-cultural encounters and control of water / Alexander Statman
- Ambergris : from sea to scent in Renaissance Italy / Mackenzie Cooley and Kathryn Biedermann
- Squid : natural history as food history / Whitney Barlow Robles
- Coffee : of melancholic Turkish bodies and sensory experiences / Duygu Yıldırım
- Manchineel : power, pain, and knowledge in the Lesser Antilles / Thomas C. Anderson
- Pitcher plant : drowning in her sweet nectar / Elaine Ayers
- Leaf : the materiality of early modern herbals / Julia Heideklang
- Armadillo : an animal in search of a place / Florencia Pierri
- Bird : living names of Félix de Azara's lost collection / Anna Toledano
- Brain : objecthood, subjecthood, and the genius of Gauss / Nicolaas Rupke
- Epilogue : nature's narratives / Paula Findlen
- Afterword : the disorder of things / Alan Mikhail.