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Peripheral Wonders: Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Orinoco Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Margaret R. Ewalt
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- Title Peripheral Wonders: Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Orinoco
- Author Margaret R. Ewalt
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bucknell University Press
- Date 2008-12
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780838756898 / 0838756891
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Gumilla, Joseph, Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008013035
- Dewey Decimal Code 987.03
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Lewisburg:: Bucknell University Press, 2008., 2008. 8vo. 258 pp. Figs., index. Black gilt-stamped cloth, dust jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 9780838756898 "This book expands traditional conceptions of the Enlightenment by examining the roles of wonder and Jesuit missionary conceptions of the Enlightenment by examining the century in a production of knowledge that serves both intellectual and religious functions. Ewalt analyzes a variety of classical and sacred rhetorical techniques for vivid persuasion that illuminate the simultaneously spiritual and scientific discourse employed by Joseph Gumilla in El Orinoco ilustrado (1741, 45), a text that concretizes an eclectic, Catholic Enlightenment that unites sentiment and reason, allows for emotion within scientific inquiry, and employs the strategy of wonder to accumulate, enumerate, and disseminate knowledge. Ewalt's work complements and extends studies proposing new and more inclusive Enlightenment models that challenge secular prejudices and reconsiders…
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