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The Language of Nature in Buffon's Histoire naturelle (Paperback)
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The Language of Nature in Buffon's Histoire naturelle (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018:10
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Drawing from literary studies, philosophy, and the history of
science, in this interdisciplinary study Hanna Roman argues that
the language of Buffon's Histoire naturelle (1749-1788) could not
be separated from the science it conveyed; the language
communicated nature's vital order, form and movement. In the
Histoire naturelle, the ability of language to embody and
communicate the living essence of nature grew increasingly poignant
as Buffon established his hypothesis that the Earth, initially a
molten ball of fire, was dying as it slowly became colder. The
author highlights Buffon's Epoques de la nature (1778) in which he
implied that to save nature from cold death, people must learn to
create actual heat according to the model provided by his lyrical,
dynamic language, the energy of which would transform into
re-warming a cooling globe. In this way, Roman argues that Buffon's
literary simulacrum of nature taught his readers not only about the
history of nature and its laws, but also how to interact with
nature differently, transferring to them the skills necessary to
modify the surrounding world in order to better fit the desires and
dreams of humanity. A new world could be more than imagined-it
could be engineered through language.
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