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Tables of Contents for Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
9
4
Introduction: At the Limit
13
8
The Topography of Wonder
21
46
Marvels on the Margins
25
14
Wonders of Creation
39
9
Prodigious Individuals and Marvelous Kinds
48
12
Wonder and Belief
60
7
The Properties of Things
67
42
Collecting Wonders
68
20
Artificial Marvels
88
12
Wonders at Court
100
9
Wonder Among the Philosophers
109
26
The Philosophers Against Wonder
110
10
Curiosity and the Preternatural
120
6
Making Wonders Cease
126
9
Marvelous Particulars
135
38
Marvelous Therapeutics
137
9
Preternatural History
146
13
Preternatural Philosophy
159
14
Monsters: A Case Study
173
42
Horror: Monsters as Prodigies
177
13
Pleasure: Monsters as Sport
190
11
Repugnance: Monsters as Errors
201
14
Strange Facts
215
40
Baconian Reforms
220
11
Strange Facts in Learned Societies
231
9
The Sociability of Strange Facts
240
6
The Credibility of Strange Facts
246
9
Wonders of Art, Wonders of Nature
255
48
Art and Nature Opposed
261
4
The Wonders of Art and Nature Displayed
265
11
The Wonders of Art and Nature Conjoined
276
14
Nature as Artist, Nature as Art
290
13
The Passions of Inquiry
303
26
Ravening Curiosity
305
6
Wonder and Curiosity Allied
311
5
Gawking Wonder
316
13
The Enlightenment and the Anti-Marvelous
329
36
The Unholy Trinity: Enthusiasm, Superstition, Imagination
334
9
Vulgarity and the Love of the Marvelous
343
7
Nature's Decorum
350
10
The Wistful Counter-Enlightenment
360
5
Epilogue
365
4
Photo Credits
369
4
Notes
373
78
Bibliography
451
48
Index
499