Brian W. Ogilvie
(2006年刊行, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN:0226620875 [hbk] → 著者サイト|版元ページ)
【目次】
List of Figures viii
Preface and Acknowledgments x
Conventions xv1. Introduction 1
Setting the Stage : The Invention of Natural History in the Renaissance 1
Natural History and Renaissance Culture : Five Aspects 11
Humanism 11
Empiricism and the History of the Fact 12
Collecting and Curiosity 13
Forms of Scientific Sociability and Organization 14
The Renaissance “Worldview” 15
Methodological Problems : Experience and Practice 172. The World of Renaissance Natural History 25
Four Generations of Renaissance Naturalists 28
Medical Humanists and Critics, 1490-1530 30
The First Phytographers, 1530-60 34
Cataloguers and Collectors, 1560-90 38
Systematizers, 1590-1620 46
The Preeminence of Botany 49
A Collective Enterprise 51
What Made a Naturalist? 54
The Geography of Natural History 58
Natural History in Local Communities 63
Basel, c. 1550-1620 63
The Eastern Habsburg Lands, c. 1560-88 65
Bordeaux, circa 1600 67
Shared Activities : Herborizing 70
The Community of Naturalists and the Republic of Letters 74
The Imagined Community 82
Conclusion 853. The Humanist Invention of Natural History 87
The Invention of a Tradition 93
Nature in Medieval and Renaissance Literature 100
Cognitio Historica and Natural History 115
Humanist Scholarship and Ancient Natural History 121
Humanist Natural History in Practice : Euricius Cordus 133
Conclusion : Dioscorides and Renaissance Natural History 1374. A Science of Describing 139
Experiencing Nature 141
Gardens 151
Herbaria 165
Reproducing Experience 174
Notes, Correspondence, and Exchange 174
Describing Plants, 1530-1630 182
Illustrations as Renaissance Natural History 192
The Primacy of the Visual 203
Conclusion : From Local to Universal Knowledge 2065. Common Sense, Classification, and the Catalogue of Nature 209
The Unexpected Consequences of the Science of Describing 210
Herbalia : From Memoranda to Documentation Centers 210
Taxonomy and Classification : Renaissance Folkbiology 215
Evaluating the Unknown : Renaissance Naturalists and Travelers' Tales 229
The Wonders of the North 231
Beyond Europe : The Natural History of the Indies 243
Acosta on the Medicies of India 244
Birds of Paradise 248
The Ficus Indica : Reliable Witnessing 252
Training Witnesses 254
Epilogue : A New Sensibility? 2586. Conclusion: What Was "Renaissance Natural History"? 265
Notes 273
Bibliography 331
Index 367