Cover of Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750

Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750

by Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park

1998 511 pages eng

Historians of science Daston (Harvard) and Park's (Max Planck Inst.) sweeping investigation into the place of wonder and wonders in natural philosophy and history--from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment--is dense with erudition and pleasingly light on its scholarly feet. The era covered here…

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