An edition of The theater of nature (1997)
The theater of nature
Jean Bodin and Renaissance science
By Ann Blair
Publish Date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
eng
Pages
382
Description:
The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characteristic of much late Renaissance science.