Alexander Wragge-Morley

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Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720Hardcover, 20 April 2020

Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720
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Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
20 Apr 2020
ISBN-10
022668072X
ISBN-13
9780226680729

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Alexander Wragge-Morley
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
20 April 2020
ISBN-10:
022668072X
ISBN-13:
9780226680729
Language:
English
Pages:
272

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