Beyond the “Irrational and Superstitious”: The New World, Spanish “Hunters of Nature’s Secrets”, and Transformations of Science in the Early Modern Era

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Beyond the “Irrational and Superstitious”: The New World, Spanish “Hunters of Nature’s Secrets”, and Transformations of Science in the Early Modern Era

Original language description

The goal of this article is to examine the preconditions, presuppositions, and forms of modern science. It focuses on ‘hunt for nature’s secrets’ as one of the key sources and roots of science, an enterprise where the productive role of human knowledge and its power ambitions became crucial. Such approach to science is often identified with Bacon’s project of recovery of sciences or with the experimental approach of modern science. In this contribution, however, it is demonstrated that one can find such goals and ambitions also in a different – and at first sight even ‘irrational’ – area, namely in Spanish natural magic, occult philosophy, and tradition of libri secretorum. Also considered are the works of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and Juan de Cárdenas, where the ‘hunter’s epistemology’ is defined. Both of these authors articulated new goals and methods of science, an approach based on the privileged epistemic status of experience, rehabilitation of intellectual curiosity, and active and power-demanding approach to nature and its secrets. These ideas were distinctly articulated in confrontation with nature of the New World.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP13-20763P" target="_blank" >GP13-20763P: The Spanish Natural Philosophy and Genesis of Early Modern Science</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Almagest: International Journal for the History of Scientific Ideas

ISSN

1792-2593

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GR - GREECE

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

121-143

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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