During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early...
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds geographic worlds found in the voyages of discove...
