Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds
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The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things―ranging from pollen in a gust of wind, to a carnivorous pitcher plant, to a shell-like skinned armadillo―and the humans enthralled with them. Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things travelled across the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman Empire, Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, the Spanish Empire, and Western Europe. In distant worlds that were constantly changing with expanding networks of trade, colonial aspirations, and the rise of empiricism, natural things obtained new meanings and became alienated from their origins. Tracing the processes of their displacement, each chapter starts with a piece of original artwork that relies on digital collage to pull image sources out of place and to represent meanings that natural things lost and remade. Accessible and elegant, Natural Things is the first study of its kind to combine original visualizations with the history of science. Museum-goers, scholars, scientists, and students will find new histories of nature and collecting within. Its playful visuality will capture the imagination of non-academic and academic readers alike while reminding us of the alienating capacity of the modern life sciences. Cover Endorsements Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction On the Design Part I Manipulated Chapter 1 Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in Mesoamerica Chapter 2 Bezoar: Medicine in the Belly of the Beast Chapter 3 Canal: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Control of Water Chapter 4 Ambergris: From Sea to Scent in Renaissance Italy Part II Felt Chapter 5 Squid: Natural History as Food History, c. 1730–1860 Chapter 6 Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory Experiences Chapter 7 Manchineel: Power, Pain, and Knowledge in the Lesser Antilles Chapter 8 Pitcher Plant: Drowning in her Sweet Nectar Part III Preserved Chapter 9 Leaf: The Twofold Materiality of Early Modern Herbals Chapter 10 Armadillo: An Animal in Search of a Place Chapter 11 Bird: Living Names of Félix de Azara’s Lost Collection Chapter 12 Brain: Objecthood, Subjecthood, and the Genius of Gauss Epilogue: Nature’s Narratives Afterword: The Disorder of Things: A Virus Dispatch Index
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