Worldmakers

图书信息

作者	Ramachandran, Ayesha
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226288826
出版时间	2015-10-13
字数	67.4万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, "e;the world"e; was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totalityThe Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how "e;the world"e; itself-variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order-was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy-all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture "e;the world"e; on the page.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index