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Encountering Water in Early Mode Europe and Beyond:Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging (Environmental Humanities in Pre-mode Cultures)
by: Lindsay Starkey (Author)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Publication Date: 2020/9/10
Language: English
Print Length: 274 pages
ISBN-10: 9462988730
ISBN-13: 9789462988736
Book Description
Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle’s works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early mode Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, sixteenth-century Europeans particularly were especially conceed with why dry land existed. This book investigates why they were so interested in water’s failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the southe hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth’s ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late.
About the Author
Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle’s works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early mode Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, sixteenth-century Europeans particularly were especially conceed with why dry land existed. This book investigates why they were so interested in water’s failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the southe hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth’s ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late.
