Sympathetic Attractions

Author : Patricia Fara
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400864362

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Sympathetic Attractions by Patricia Fara Pdf

In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympathies; in this maritime nation, magnetic instruments such as navigational compasses heralded imperial expansion, commercial gain, and scientific progress. By analyzing such multiple associations, Fara reconstructs cultural interactions in the days just prior to the creation of disciplinary science. Not only does this illustrated book provide a kaleidoscopic view of a changing society, but it also portrays the emergence of public science. Linking this rise in interest to the utility and mysteriousness of magnetism, Fara organizes her discussion into themes, including commercialization, imperialism, instruments and invention, the role of language, attitudes toward the past, and the relationship between religion and natural philosophy. Fara shows that natural philosophers, proclaiming themselves as the only true experts on magnetism, actively participated in massive transformations of English life. In their bids for public recognition as elite specialists, they engaged in controversies that resonated with religious, economic, moral, gender, and political implications. These struggles for social and scientific authority in the eighteenth century provide the background for better understanding the cultural topography of modern society. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Seth Lobis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300192032

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The Virtue of Sympathy by Seth Lobis Pdf

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and building to a new reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost, author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred to magical affinities in the universe, sympathy was increasingly understood to be a force of connection between people. By examining sympathy in literary and philosophical writing of the period, Lobis illuminates an extraordinary shift in human understanding.

Author : Mary Fairclough
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137593153

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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840 by Mary Fairclough Pdf

This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a result, debates about the nature of electricity dovetailed with discussions of the relation between body and soul, the nature of sexual attraction, the properties of revolutionary communication and the mysteries of vitality. This study explores the complex textual manifestations of electricity between 1740 and 1840, in which commentators describe it both as a material force and as a purely figurative one. The book analyses attempts by both elite and popular practitioners of electricity to elucidate the mysteries of electricity, and traces the figurative uses of electrical language in the works of writers including Mary Robinson, Edmund Burke, Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall, Mary Shelley and Richard Carlile.

Author : Wilbur Applebaum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135582562

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Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution by Wilbur Applebaum Pdf

With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged. Covering the historiography of the period, discussions of the Scientific Revolution's impact on its contemporaneous disciplines, and in-depth analyses of the importance of historical context to major developments in the sciences, The Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution is an indispensible resource for students and researchers in the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Eric Schliesser
Publisher : Oxford Philosophical Concepts
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199928897

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Sympathy by Eric Schliesser Pdf

This volume offers a historical overview of some of the most significant attempts to come to grips with sympathy in Western thought from Plato to experimental economics. The contributors are leading scholars in philosophy, classics, history, economics, comparative literature, and political science.

Author : Laura Georgescu,Han Thomas Adriaenssen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030998226

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The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) by Laura Georgescu,Han Thomas Adriaenssen Pdf

This book examines the philosophical and scientific achievements of Sir Kenelm Digby, a successful English diplomat, privateer and natural philosopher of the mid-1600s. Not widely remembered today, Digby is one of the most intriguing figures in the history of early modern philosophers. Among scholars, he is known for his attempt to reconcile what perhaps seem to be irreconcilable philosophical frameworks: Aristotelianism and early modern mechanism. This contributed volume offers the first full-length treatment of Digby’s work and of the unique position he occupied in early modern intellectual history. It explores key aspects of Digby’s metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical method, and offers a new appraisal of his contributions to early modern natural philosophy and mathematics. A dozen contributors offer their expert insight into such topics as Body, quantity, and measures in Digby's natural philosophy Ecumenism and common notions in Digby Aristotelianism and accidents in Digby's philosophy Digby on body and soul Digby on method and experiments This book volume will be of benefit to a broad audience of scholars, educators, and students of the history of early modern science and philosophy.

Author : Philip K. Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004333253

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Surgery, Skin and Syphilis by Philip K. Wilson Pdf

Daniel Turner’s prolific writings provide valuable insight into the practice of a commonplace Enlightenment London surgeon. Turner’s career-long crusade against quackery and his voluminous writings on syphilis, a common ‘surgical disorder’, provide a refined view into distinction between orthodox and quack practices in eighteenth-century London.

Author : N.A.M. Rodger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000940985

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Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern by N.A.M. Rodger Pdf

The articles collected here (two appearing for the first time in English) cover a number of topics central to naval history and illustrate the author's contention that this is not only, or even chiefly, a distinct area of special study, but rather a central theme running through the history of England, and of the whole British Isles. Though the subjects and the styles vary a good deal, the studies are linked by a common approach and some common ideas. Hence many examine ways in which naval history has formed a key element in such subjects as intellectual, religious, administrative or medical history and explored the nature and meaning of sea power as a theme. At the same time naval history is a technical subject, which demands a willingness to understand warships - the most complex artefacts - and the structure of large and complex organisations. Detailed evidence about ships and weapons can build large conclusions, for example about late Anglo-Saxon government and military organisation, or about the nature of warfare at sea in the Renaissance era. While mostly written from the British point of view, several essays explicitly survey naval developments over a range of countries, and even the most narrowly focused are at least implicitly aware of the wider world of war at sea.

Author : Karel Davids
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350142145

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Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860 by Karel Davids Pdf

This book looks to fill the 'blue hole' in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation, development, reproduction and adaptation of knowledge across the Atlantic world. It shows how globalisation and the growth of maritime knowledge served to reinforce one another, and demonstrates how and why maritime history should be put firmly at the heart of global history. Exploring the dynamics of globalisation, knowledge-making and European expansion, Global Ocean of Knowledge takes a transnational approach and transgresses the traditional border between the early modern and modern periods. It focuses on three main periodisations, which correspond with major transformations in the globalisation of the Atlantic World, and analyses how and to what extent globalisation forces from above and from below influenced the development and exchange of knowledge. Davids distinguishes three forms of globalising forces 'from above'; imperial, commercial and religious, alongside self-organisation, the globalising force 'from below'. Exploring how globalisation advanced and its relationship with knowledge changed over time, this book bridges global, maritime, intellectual and economic history to reflect on the role of the oceans in making the world a more connected place.

Author : Heather Kerr,David Lemmings,Robert Phiddian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137455413

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Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture by Heather Kerr,David Lemmings,Robert Phiddian Pdf

This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.

Author : J B Roustaing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600090614

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The four Gospels explained by their writers. With an appendix. Ed. by J.B. Roustaing, tr. [from the Fr.] by W.F. Kirby by J B Roustaing Pdf

Author : Mary Fairclough
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139620444

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The Romantic Crowd by Mary Fairclough Pdf

In the long eighteenth century, sympathy was understood not just as an emotional bond, but also as a physiological force, through which disruption in one part of the body produces instantaneous disruption in another. Building on this theory, Romantic writers explored sympathy as a disruptive social phenomenon, which functioned to spread disorder between individuals and even across nations like a 'contagion'. It thus accounted for the instinctive behaviour of people swept up in a crowd. During this era sympathy assumed a controversial political significance, as it came to be associated with both riotous political protest and the diffusion of information through the press. Mary Fairclough reads Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, John Thelwall, William Hazlitt and Thomas De Quincey alongside contemporary political, medical and philosophical discourse. Many of their central questions about crowd behaviour still remain to be answered by the modern discourse of collective psychology.

Author : Edward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Mystical union
ISBN : CHI:27145339

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The Concord of Ages by Edward Beecher Pdf

Author : Tim Fulford,Debbie Lee,Peter J. Kitson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521829194

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Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era by Tim Fulford,Debbie Lee,Peter J. Kitson Pdf

Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.

Author : Donato Verardi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350357181

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Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe by Donato Verardi Pdf

Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy. Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe. Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging the crucial role that concepts like magic and illusion played in Aristotle's time.