Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

130 Harrison they are concerned with “divinity.” In this context, “divinity” refers to revealed theology, which was concerned wi ...

Natural History 131 of insects was again a popular topic. Friedrich Lesser, the Lutheran pastor of Nordhausen, Thuringia, produc ...

132 Harrison ter of the enterprise conspired against the attainment of higher status, for it lacked both the human relevance of ...

Natural History 133 namely, the Foundation of [natural] Philosophy.”^82 However, the facts of a history of nature, including the ...

134 Harrison are lockt up all sorts of things, to be made use of in times of need.”^88 Such “memoirs” were common genres for the ...

Natural History 135 Earth, for example, took as their point of departure the observations of the “sacred historian” Moses, presu ...

136 Harrison transgressions—were the most commonly cited causes of the degenera- tion of animals and plants. By a happy coincide ...

Natural History 137 natural world—book, mirror, garden, museum—to a dynamic one. The archive is a record of historical change. B ...

138 Harrison substances that make up living things manifest “the law of the continuous progression of its own workings.”^102 The ...

Natural History 139 the famous thesaurus, declared in his Bridgewater Treatise that with the single principle of design, he had ...

140 Harrison tion of the disparate facts related to the origins of species: “The line of argument often pursued throughout my th ...

Natural History 141 through the creation of the myth of a longstanding rational and secular “science” that had been engaged in a ...

142 Harrison ogy.”^120 Abandoned by the newly defi ned “scientists,” and evacuated of its theological meanings, by the beginning ...

Natural History 143 cieties dedicated to conservation, and the crowds of children who pack the dinosaur halls in museums of natu ...

144 Harrison Hoeniger, The Development of Natural History in Tudor England (Charlottesville: Univer- sity Press of Virginia for ...

Natural History 145 Bacon, De Augmentis, 4:341. Ibid., 340. William Ashworth, “Natural History and the Emblematic World View,” ...

146 Harrison Ralph Austen, A Treatise of Fruit- Trees, together with The Spiritual vse of an Orchard (Oxford, 1653), 14. In Top ...

Natural History 147 Ibid., 299. Bacon, Great Instauration, 4:28–29. Bacon, De Augmentis, 4:362. See Richard Yeo, “Classifying t ...

148 Harrison nairre Raisonné des Sciences, ed. Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert (Neufchatel, 1765), 8:228; quoted in Gascoigne, ...

149 THE QUADRIVIUM AND “MIXED MATHEMATICS” The category “mixed mathematics” is nowadays perhaps best known by historians from it ...