Natural History in Early Modern France

Raphaële Garrod, Ph.D. (2011), Trinity College, Cambridge, is research associate at Cambridge and incoming associate professor of early modern French at the University of Oxford. She has published on early modern French and neo-Latin intellectual history and literature. Paul J. Smith, Ph.D. (1985), Leiden University, is professor of French literature at that University. He has published widely on early modern French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, and early modern natural history.

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1 Introduction. Knowledge and Literature: The Natural-Historical Description as Epistemic Genre?

 Raphaële Garrod



2 Deux recueils d’illustrations ornithologiques : les Icones avium (1555 et 1560) de Conrad Gessner et les Portraits d’oyseaux (1557) de Pierre Belon

 Paul J. Smith



3 Feeling Divine Nature: Natural History, Emotions and Bernard Palissy’s Knowledge Practice

 Susan Broomhall



4 L’idée d’un oiseau : l’oiseau de paradis ou la fabrication d’une merveille (XVIe et XVIIe siècles)

 Arlette Fruet



5 Du nouveau sur la licorne : le rôle des cabinets de curiosités dans l’avancée des savoirs

 Myriam Marrache-Gouraud



6 The Natural-Historical Rejuvenation of Emblematics: The Moral Pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin’s Polyhistor Symbolicus

 Raphaële Garrod



7 Natural History and Divertissement: J.B. Faultrier’s Traitté general des oyseaux (1660)

 Isabelle Charmantier



8 At the Borders of the Metropolis: Writing the Natural History of Paris in the Eighteenth Century

 Stéphane Van Damme



9 Rewriting Bacon’s Natural History: Pierre Amboise’s Translation of Sylva Sylvarum

 Dana Jalobeanu



10 Bacon, Experimental Philosophy and French Enlightenment Natural History

 Peter R. Anstey



11 La permanence des savoirs antiques dans l’histoire naturelle du second XVIIIe siècle

 Stéphane Schmitt



12 Empiricism and Sensibility in the Australian Journal of Théodore Leschenault de La Tour (1800-1803)

 Paul Gibbard



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