The Word of God and the Languages of Man: Ficino to Descartes v. 1: Interpreting Nature in Early Modern Science and Medicine (Science & literature series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Word of God and the Languages of Man: Ficino to Descartes v. 1: Interpreting Nature in Early Modern Science and Medicine (Science & literature series) Book

This remarkably ambitious work relates changes in scientific and medical thought during the Scientific Revolution (c. 15001700) to the emergence of new principles and practices for interpreting language, texts, and nature. An invaluable history of ideas about the nature of language during this period, The Word of God and the Languages of Man also explores the wider cultural origins and impact of these ideas. Its broad and deeply complex picture of a profound sociocultural and intellectual transformation will alter our definition of the scientific revolution. James J. Bono shows how the new interpretive principles and scientific practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries evolved in response to new views of the relationship between the Word of God and the Languages of Man fostered by Renaissance Humanism, Neoplatonism, magic, and both the reformed and radical branches of Protestantism. He traces the cultural consequences of these ideas in the thought and work of major and minor actors in the scientific revolutionfrom Ficino and Paracelsus to Francis Bacon and Descartes. By considering these natural philosophers in light of their own intellectual, religious, philosophical, cultural, linguistic, and especially narrative frameworks, Bono suggests a new way of viewing the sociocultural dynamics of scientific change in the premodern periodand ultimately, a new way of understanding the nature and history of scientific thought. The narrative configuration he proposes provides a powerful alternative to the longstanding revolutionary metaphor of the history of the scientific revolution. Read More

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  • 0299147940
  • 9780299147945
  • James J. Bono
  • 31 October 1995
  • University of Wisconsin Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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