Aesthetic science : representing nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720 /

Aesthetic science : representing nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720 /

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Author / Creator:	Wragge-Morley, Alexander, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Description:	1 online resource (250 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ray, John, -- 1627-1705. Boyle, Robert, -- 1627-1691. Grew, Nehemiah, -- 1641-1712. Hooke, Robert, -- 1635-1703. Willis, Thomas, -- 1621-1675. Willis, Thomas, -- 1621-1675. Ray, John, -- 1627-1705. Hooke, Robert, -- 1635-1703. Grew, Nehemiah, -- 1641-1712. Boyle, Robert, -- 1627-1691. Royal Society (Great Britain) Royal Society (Great Britain) Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Science -- Aesthetics. Knowledge, Theory of. Science -- Aesthetics. Knowledge, Theory of. Science. Great Britain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12315864

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ISBN:	022668105X 9780226681054 9780226680866 9780226680729
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record.
Summary:	The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences.
Other form:	Print version: Wragge-Morley, Alexander Aesthetic Science : Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720 Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2020 9780226680729

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. Physico- Theology, Natural Philosophy, and Sensory Experience
2. An Empiricism of Imperceptible Entities
3. In Search of Lost Designs
4. Verbal Picturing
5. Natural Philosophy and the Cultivation of Taste
Conclusion. Embodied Aesthetics
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index