Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation

by Rebecca Totaro

Book Overview

Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation provides the first sustained examination of the foundational set of early modern beliefs linking meteorology and physiology. This was a relationship so intimate and, to us, poetic that we have spent centuries assuming early moderns were using figurative language when they represented the matter and motions of their bodies in meteorological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367667363
• ISBN13: 9780367667368
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages