Zoology in early modern culture : : intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education / / edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith ; contributors, Tamás Demete [and eight others].

• Superior document: Intersections, Volume 32
• TeilnehmendeR: Enenkel, K. A. E.,; Smith, P. J.; Demete, Tamás,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (546 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of the different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. Early modern reading of the “Book of Nature” comprised, among others, the description of species in the literary tradition of antiquity, as well as empirical observat...