Alexander Wragge-Morley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1071403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Wragge-Morley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Wragge-Morley |
| SIGNATURE | WRAGGE-MORLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7051-2624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lovely colours
Cet article explore le langage affectif utilisé pour décrire la couleur par trois membres clés de la première Royal Society de Londres Robert Boyle, John Ray et Francis Willughby. Ce faisant, il met en lumière un paradoxe. D’une part, Boyle et ses contemporains comprenaient que la couleur provenait en partie des réactions de leur propre corps aux éléments extérieurs. Il allait donc de soi que le meilleur moyen de rendre les couleurs utiles dans l…
Lady Ranelagh
Taste and the history of science
In this introduction, we argue that the time is right to explore the role that taste has played in the history of science. For a long time, scientists, philosophers and historians regarded taste as incompatible with the production of knowledge, contrasting the apparent subjectivity of taste with the objectivity supposedly required by the sciences. In recent years, however, the intellectual foundations of this presumed incompatibility have broken …
Taste, intersubjectivity and medical expertise
This paper examines the medical correspondence between the physician George Cheyne and the aristocrats Selina Hastings and Susan Keck. Written during the 1730s, these letters reveal that both Cheyne and his patients articulated a model of medical expertise based not on knowledge in any conventional sense, but rather on fellow feeling or intersubjectivity. Drawing on letters sent by Keck to Hastings that have yet to be noticed by historians, this …
Introduction
A major theme of the European Enlightenment was the rationalization of value, the use of reason to determine the value of things, from diamonds to civilizations. This view of the Enlightenment is well-established in the human sciences. It is ripe for extension to the natural sciences, given the rich recent literature on affect, evaluation, and subjectivity in early modern science. Meanwhile, in art history, the new history of connoisseurship prov…
Medicine, connoisseurship, and the animal body
This essay reconsiders the links between medicine, connoisseurship, and aesthetic theory in early eighteenth-century Britain. Taking a satire on the body of the physician and collector John Woodward as its starting point, I show that medicine and connoisseurship shared a deep preoccupation with the possibility that the animal body could excessively influence the workings of the mind. Pursuing this line of argument, moreover, I will reconsider the…
Robert Boyle and the representation of imperceptible entities
In this essay, I examine Robert Boyle's strategies for making imperceptible entities accessible to the senses. It is well known that, in his natural philosophy, Boyle confronted the challenge of making imperceptible particles of matter into objects of sensory experience. It has never been noted, however, that Boyle confronted a strikingly similar challenge in his natural theology – he needed to make an equally imperceptible God accessible to the …
Regimens of the Mind. Boyle, Locke and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition
Sorana Corneanu, Regimens of the Mind. Boyle, Locke and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2011), ix + 308 pp. £32.50/$50.00. ISBN-13: 978–0-226
‘Vividness’ in english natural history and anatomy, 1650–1700
This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporary works of neurology such as Willis's Cerebri Anatome…
The Work of Verbal Picturing for John Ray and Some of his Contemporaries
By far the largest part of Nehemiah Grew’s account of a seventeenth‐century collection of rarities, his Musæum Regalis Societatis (1685) is taken up with ‘thick’, verbal descriptions of things in the Royal Society’s repository. Not only, Grew suggests, do his descriptions serve to signify the contents of his collection, but they enable us to discern among species and to think about the collection’s pieces in new ways. Verbal descriptions did not …
Robert Boyle and the representation of imperceptible entities
In this essay, I examine Robert Boyle's strategies for making imperceptible entities accessible to the senses. It is well known that, in his natural philosophy, Boyle confronted the challenge of making imperceptible particles of matter into objects of sensory experience. It has never been noted, however, that Boyle confronted a strikingly similar challenge in his natural theology – he needed to make an equally imperceptible God accessible to the …
The Work of Verbal Picturing for John Ray and Some of his Contemporaries
By far the largest part of Nehemiah Grew’s account of a seventeenth‐century collection of rarities, his Musæum Regalis Societatis (1685) is taken up with ‘thick’, verbal descriptions of things in the Royal Society’s repository. Not only, Grew suggests, do his descriptions serve to signify the contents of his collection, but they enable us to discern among species and to think about the collection’s pieces in new ways. Verbal descriptions did not …
The Work of Verbal Picturing for John Ray and Some of his Contemporaries
By far the largest part of Nehemiah Grew’s account of a seventeenth‐century collection of rarities, his Musæum Regalis Societatis (1685) is taken up with ‘thick’, verbal descriptions of things in the Royal Society’s repository. Not only, Grew suggests, do his descriptions serve to signify the contents of his collection, but they enable us to discern among species and to think about the collection’s pieces in new ways. Verbal descriptions did not …
‘Vividness’ in english natural history and anatomy, 1650–1700
This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporary works of neurology such as Willis's Cerebri Anatome…
Regimens of the Mind. Boyle, Locke and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition
Sorana Corneanu, Regimens of the Mind. Boyle, Locke and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2011), ix + 308 pp. £32.50/$50.00. ISBN-13: 978–0-226
Robert Boyle and the representation of imperceptible entities
In this essay, I examine Robert Boyle's strategies for making imperceptible entities accessible to the senses. It is well known that, in his natural philosophy, Boyle confronted the challenge of making imperceptible particles of matter into objects of sensory experience. It has never been noted, however, that Boyle confronted a strikingly similar challenge in his natural theology – he needed to make an equally imperceptible God accessible to the …
Taste and the history of science
In this introduction, we argue that the time is right to explore the role that taste has played in the history of science. For a long time, scientists, philosophers and historians regarded taste as incompatible with the production of knowledge, contrasting the apparent subjectivity of taste with the objectivity supposedly required by the sciences. In recent years, however, the intellectual foundations of this presumed incompatibility have broken …
Taste, intersubjectivity and medical expertise
This paper examines the medical correspondence between the physician George Cheyne and the aristocrats Selina Hastings and Susan Keck. Written during the 1730s, these letters reveal that both Cheyne and his patients articulated a model of medical expertise based not on knowledge in any conventional sense, but rather on fellow feeling or intersubjectivity. Drawing on letters sent by Keck to Hastings that have yet to be noticed by historians, this …
Introduction
A major theme of the European Enlightenment was the rationalization of value, the use of reason to determine the value of things, from diamonds to civilizations. This view of the Enlightenment is well-established in the human sciences. It is ripe for extension to the natural sciences, given the rich recent literature on affect, evaluation, and subjectivity in early modern science. Meanwhile, in art history, the new history of connoisseurship prov…
Medicine, connoisseurship, and the animal body
This essay reconsiders the links between medicine, connoisseurship, and aesthetic theory in early eighteenth-century Britain. Taking a satire on the body of the physician and collector John Woodward as its starting point, I show that medicine and connoisseurship shared a deep preoccupation with the possibility that the animal body could excessively influence the workings of the mind. Pursuing this line of argument, moreover, I will reconsider the…
Lady Ranelagh
Lovely colours
Cet article explore le langage affectif utilisé pour décrire la couleur par trois membres clés de la première Royal Society de Londres Robert Boyle, John Ray et Francis Willughby. Ce faisant, il met en lumière un paradoxe. D’une part, Boyle et ses contemporains comprenaient que la couleur provenait en partie des réactions de leur propre corps aux éléments extérieurs. Il allait donc de soi que le meilleur moyen de rendre les couleurs utiles dans l…
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