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 observations, vivisection, and modern eyewitness accounts; the “translation” of zoological species into visual art for devotion, prayer, and religious education, but also scientific and scholarly curiosity; theoretical, philosophical, and theological thinking regarding God’s creation, the Flood, and the generation of animals; new attempts with respect to nomenclature and taxonomy; the discovery of unknown species in the New World; impressive Wunderkammer collections, and the keeping of exotic animals in princely menageries. The volume demonstrates that theology and philology played a pivotal role in the complex formation of this new science. Contributors include: Brian Ogilvie, Bernd Roling, Erik Jorink, Paul Smith, Sabine Kalff, Tamás Demeter, Amanda Herrin, Marrigje Rikken, Alexander Loose, Sophia Hendrikx, and Karl Enenkel.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction. Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- 1 Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte in Politik und Religion: Plinius’ Zoologie und der römische Imperialismus With an English Summary / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- 2 The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern Zoology / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- 3 Identification of Herring Species (Clupeidae) in Conrad Gessner’s Ichthyological Works: A Case Study on Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Animal Depiction in the Sixteenth Century / Sophia Hendrikx -- 4 Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680), die dänische Nation und das Ende der Einhörner With an English Summary / Bernd Roling -- 5 Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous Generation / Eric Jorink -- 6 Insects in John Ray’s Natural History and Natural Theology / Brian W. Ogilvie -- 7 Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus. Die Idee der Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche Auferstehung zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit With an English Summary / Bernd Roling -- 8 Rereading Dürer’s Representations of the Fall of Man / Paul J. Smith -- 9 Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler I and Emblematic Natural History in the Late Sixteenth Century / Amanda K. Herrin -- 10 Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant Savery / Marrigje Rikken -- 11 Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political Ornithology / Sabine Kalff -- 12 Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung. Die Theriobulia des böhmischen Humanisten Johannes Dubravius With an English Summary / Alexander Loose -- 13 From Physiology to Political Ideology: The Images of Man in Early Modern Scotland / Tamás Demeter -- Index Nominum -- Index Animalium—Index of Animals.