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Aesthetic Science - Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720 (Paperback)
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The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London
have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism,
rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural
history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really
was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this
interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert
Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study
of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern
naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience
and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores
natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society
through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance
of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about
nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of
scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to
light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the
history of the empirical sciences.
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