The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World - Couverture souple

Bauer, Ralph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081394256X ISBN 13 : 9780813942568

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about the Americas during the early modern period.

As sailors, conquerors, travelers, and missionaries were exploring "new worlds," and claiming ownership of them, early modern men of science redefined what it means to "discover" something. Bauer explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the discovery of the Americas and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. The book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of late medieval alchemists such as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ralph Bauer is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland and the author of The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081394256X
• ISBN 13: 9780813942568
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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