Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature and Moral Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History
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- ISBN 9780761830863
- Weight: 195g
- Dimensions: 145 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 23 Feb 2005
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Swiss critic Johann Georg Sulzer's Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature (1750) and Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History (1745) are exemplary specimens of eighteenth-century European theology, philosophy, natural history, and aesthetics. Sulzer's contemporaries-notably Goethe-read him with attention. Eric Miller's elegant translation comes with a vivid, informative, and strongly contextualizing introduction. Sulzer's early works are a curio cabinet of the philosophical and theological arguments that exercised and enticed the intelligentsia of his period. These topics and arguments have by no means forfeited pertinence today.
Eric Miller is the author of two books of poetry. He has also translated Linnaeus's Nemesis Divina. He is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Miller holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
