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Traces on the Rhodian Shore - Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, Revised)
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Traces on the Rhodian Shore - Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, Revised)
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In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked
three questions concerning the habitable earth and their
relationships to it. Is the earth, which is obviously a fit
environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made
creation? Have its climates, its relief, the configuration of its
continents influenced the moral and social nature of individuals,
and have they had an influence in molding the character and nature
of human culture? In his long tenure of the earth, in what manner
has man changed it from its hypothetical pristine condition? From
the time of the Greeks to our own, answers to these questions have
been and are being given so frequently and so continually that we
may restate them in the form of general ideas: the idea of a
designed earth; the idea of environmental influence; and the idea
of man as a geographic agent. These ideas have come from the
general thought and experience of men, but the first owes much to
mythology, theology, and philosophy; the second, to pharmaceutical
lore, medicine, and weather observation; the third, to the plans,
activities, and skills of everyday life such as cultivation,
carpentry, and weaving. The first two ideas were expressed
frequently in antiquity, the third less so, although it was
implicit in many discussions which recognized the obvious fact that
men through their arts, sciences, and techniques had changed the
physical environment about them. This magnum opus of Clarence
Glacken explores all of these questions from Ancient Times to the
End of the Eighteenth Century.
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