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100 1 $aSulzer, Johann Georg,$d1720-1779.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85241160
240 10 $aUnterredungen über die Schönheit der Natur.$lEnglish
245 10 $aDialogues on the beauty of nature and Moral reflections on certain topics of natural history /$cJohann Georg Sulzer ; translated by Eric Miller.
246 30 $aMoral reflections on certain topics of natural history
260 $aLanham :$bUniversity Press of America,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axxiv, 123 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aTranslation of the 1770 printing.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xxiv).
505 00 $tFirst dialogue -- $tThe first dialogue details the sensory beauties of nature -- $tThey comprise: -- $tA morning view -- $tNatural pleasure -- $tChange in natural beauty -- $tGentle effects of nature -- $tOrder and harmony of nature -- $tBeauty of the vegetable kingdom -- $tBeauty of the animal kingdom -- $tUnity in variety -- $tInfinite change in proportion -- $tHarmonious chain of creatures -- $tBeauty of a cabinet of naturalia -- $tSecond dialogue -- $tOrigin of the arts in nature -- $tComparison of nature and art -- $tAgreeable engagement of the spirit -- $tNature's consummate art manifest in the eye -- $tWisdom in the works of nature -- $tWisdom in individual kinds -- $tExceptional example of the above in waterfowl -- $tIn beasts that hibernate -- $tWisdom considered as a whole -- $tFeelings in the contemplation of this wisdom -- $tThird dialogue -- $tAn evening prospect -- $tEvening thoughts -- $tChampions of arbitrary chance -- $tTrue order and constant equilibrium in nature -- $tHow much is owing to accident -- $tPurpose in nature -- $tDoubts raised against the above -- $tProof of purpose drawn from individual cases -- $tFourth dialogue -- $tKinds of beauty in nature -- $tRarities in nature -- $tIn the kingdom of minerals -- $tIn the vegetable kingdom -- $tWonder in the generation of plants -- $tIn the animal kingdom -- $tMetamorphoses of insects -- $tGenius of animals -- $tEconomy and genius of bees -- $tArchitecture of the beaver -- $tFifth dialogue -- $tGod in the beauty of nature -- $tHighest object of thought -- $tNature is the school of the spirit -- $tAnd of the heart -- $tHighest degree of natural beauty -- $tFirst reflection, concerning the array of created things -- $tSecond reflection, concerning the order of nature -- $tThird reflection, concerning the order of nature -- $tFourth reflection, concerning the immensity of the universe -- $tFifth reflection, relating to the acknowledgement of several apparent disorders obtaining on earth -- $tSixth reflection, concerning the secrets of nature.
520 1 $a"Swiss critic Johann Georg Sulzer's Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature (1750) and Moral 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aNature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090277
700 1 $aSulzer, Johann Georg,$d1720-1779.$tMoralische Betrachtungen über besondere Gegenstände der Naturlehre.$lEnglish.
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