1st Edition
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging
By Lindsay Starkey
Copyright 2020
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle’s works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, sixteenth-century Europeans particularly were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why they were so interested in... Read more
Introduction: Why Water? Chapter 1: Athens and Jerusalem on Water, Part I: Water in Exegetical, Natural Philosophical, Cosmographical, and Geographical Texts from circa 1000-1600, Chapter 2: Gathering Water in Exegetical Texts, Chapter 3: Defining Water in Natural Philosophical Texts, Chapter 4: Describing and Depicting Water in Cosmographical and Geographical Texts, Part II: Why Water, Chapter 5: Water in Newly Rediscovered Ancient and Medieval Texts, Chapter 6: Exploring the Created Universe through Water, Chapter 7: Sea Voyages and the Water-Earth Relationship, Afterword: The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Lindsay J. Starkey is an Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University at Stark. She specializes in early modern European history, and has published pieces in >Explorations in Renaissance Culture>, >Culture and Cosmos>, >Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme>, and >Preternature>.
