The Marvels of the World An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment and 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 t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
2021, ©2021
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| Series: | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment and 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. |
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| Physical Description: | XII, 363 p. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-9781-2 |