عنوان

EDIBLE BULLS AND DRINKABLE MICE:

شماره

LA129771

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

EDIBLE BULLS AND DRINKABLE MICE:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TAXONOMY AND THE CRISIS OF EDEN

نام نخستين پديدآور

Chris Mounsey

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In the eighteenth-century stampede to categorize and name the newly discovered flora and fauna of the world, kangaroos, platypuses and the Barbadoes wild olive trampled the classical taxonomic works of the Greek, Roman and Medieval worlds into the dust. Eden was no longer populated simply by cows, sheep, royal lions and the occasional snake. It was a dangerous place filled with rabbits the size of people, otters with a duck's bill and snails that looked like fruit. New and strange animals presented problems both for the classifiers, who fought among themselves to discover sites of taxonomic rigour, and for the religious, who, all at once, had to re-interpret the Pentateuch to take account of the fact that many more animals had avoided drowning in the universal deluge than had been hitherto thought. The latter led to an even more serious problem for the understanding of how language worked: if God had named the animals for Adam in Eden as the basis of language, what was this new deluge of species for? This paper explores how for one religious poet, Christopher Smart, the host of new species presented an ideal opportunity to put right some of the mistakes in the strictly Biblical Adamic theory of language, which had been brought to light by recent developments in Newtonian science. In the eighteenth-century stampede to categorize and name the newly discovered flora and fauna of the world, kangaroos, platypuses and the Barbadoes wild olive trampled the classical taxonomic works of the Greek, Roman and Medieval worlds into the dust. Eden was no longer populated simply by cows, sheep, royal lions and the occasional snake. It was a dangerous place filled with rabbits the size of people, otters with a duck's bill and snails that looked like fruit. New and strange animals presented problems both for the classifiers, who fought among themselves to discover sites of taxonomic rigour, and for the religious, who, all at once, had to re-interpret the Pentateuch to take account of the fact that many more animals had avoided drowning in the universal deluge than had been hitherto thought. The latter led to an even more serious problem for the understanding of how language worked: if God had named the animals for Adam in Eden as the basis of language, what was this new deluge of species for? This paper explores how for one religious poet, Christopher Smart, the host of new species presented an ideal opportunity to put right some of the mistakes in the strictly Biblical Adamic theory of language, which had been brought to light by recent developments in Newtonian science.

تاريخ نشر

2000

توصيف ظاهري

114-130

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

4/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

CATS

اصطلاح موضوعی

CHRISTOPHER SMART

اصطلاح موضوعی

JEOFFRY

اصطلاح موضوعی

JUBILATE AGNO

اصطلاح موضوعی

MICE

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Chris Mounsey

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156853500507771

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y