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0000-0001-8204-184X
Current Organisation
University of Queensland
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2012
Abstract: This paper establishes the 'emblematic' use of natural history as a propaedeutic to self-betterment in the Renaissance in particular, in the natural histories of Gessner and Topsell, but also in the works of Erasmus and Rabelais. Subsequently, it investigates how Francis Bacon's conception of natural history is envisaged in relation to them. The paper contends that, where humanist natural historians understood the use of natural knowledge as a preliminary to in idual improvement, Bacon conceived self-betterment foremost as a means to Christian charity, or social-betterment. It thus examines the transformation of the moralizing aspect of Renaissance natural history in Bacon's conception of his Great Instauration.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 27-02-2012
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2011
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: No location found
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