Eric Miller's affordable, elegant translation of Nemesis divina by Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) reveals a little-known side of the great natural historian. A classic of Swedish literature that influenced luminaries such as August Strindberg, Nemesis divina was composed over years, apparently for the edification of Linnaeus's wayward son Carl. A surprising field-guide to theodicy, the book explores the occult operation of a Theologia experimentalis, an "empirical theology," in the lives of men and women. Many of these people were known to Linnaeus himself. Eric Miller, an award-winning poet and scholar, set Linnaeus's fascinating and eloquent work in a broad literary and philosophical context, linking it to matters as diverse as New England Transcendentalism, the subculture of Black Metal, the Icelandic sagas and contemporary Swedish poetry. Nemesis divina will intrigue students of literature, religion, science, and philosophy alike.
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Charming and original...Eric Miller [makes] the complex and ambivalent thought of Linnaeus more accessible. (Gino L. Di Mitri History And Philosophy Of The Life Sciences )
Charming and original...Eric Miller [makes] the complex and ambivalent thought of Linnaeus more accessible..... (Gino L. Di Mitri History And Philosophy Of The Life Sciences )
Charming and original...Eric Miller [makes] the complex and ambivalent thought of Linnaeus more accessible..... (Gino L. Di Mitri History And Philosophy Of The Life Sciences )
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Linnaeus' contemporaries were well aware that the roots of his contributions to natural history lay in something more than a rigorous empiricism and an effective taxonomy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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System of Nature, Wisdom of Solomon, Jacob Flachsenius, Virgil Aeneid, Academy of Science, Maja Hierpe, Daniel Solander, Nils Wallerius, Erik Grubbe, Faculty of Theology, Great Northern War, Julius Caesar, Lachesis Naturalis, Old Testament, All Hallows, Antonius Saturninus, Appius Maximus Norbanus, Gunnar Grope, Holy Ghost, Kerstin Lindblom, Miss Axberg, New Testament, Olaus Rudbeck, Olof Celsius, Ovid Tristia New!
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Linnaeus' contemporaries were well aware that the roots of his contributions to natural history lay in something more than a rigorous empiricism and an effective taxonomy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
university consistory, copper dollars, octavo sheets, numbered cases, diplomatic capacity, evident laws Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
System of Nature, Wisdom of Solomon, Jacob Flachsenius, Virgil Aeneid, Academy of Science, Maja Hierpe, Daniel Solander, Nils Wallerius, Erik Grubbe, Faculty of Theology, Great Northern War, Julius Caesar, Lachesis Naturalis, Old Testament, All Hallows, Antonius Saturninus, Appius Maximus Norbanus, Gunnar Grope, Holy Ghost, Kerstin Lindblom, Miss Axberg, New Testament, Olaus Rudbeck, Olof Celsius, Ovid Tristia New!
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- Nemesis divina by Carolus Linnaeus on 81 pages
- Roman History: v. 4 (Loeb Classical Library) by Cassius Cocceianus Dio on page 306, page 309, and Back Matter
- Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Advancement of Learning (Modern Library Science) by Francis Bacon on page 38, and Back Matter
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- Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist by Wilfrid Blunt on 5 pages
- August Strindberg: Selected Essays by August Strindberg on page 47, and Back Matter
- Cartesian Spacetime: Descartes' Physics and the Relational Theory of Space and Motion (International Archives of the History of Ideas, Volume 181) ... internationales d'histoire des idées) by E. Slowik in Back Matter
- Beliefs in Action: Economic Philosophy and Social Change by Eduardo Giannetti Da Fonseca in Back Matter
- A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The Masonic Circle of N.I. Novikov (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives ... internationales d'histoire des idées) by Raffaella Faggionato in Back Matter
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