"During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds - geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery as well as conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science." "Campbell's new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographics, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions." "With more than thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.

I. Introduction Pt. I. Imagination and Discipline II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America, Part I III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art Pt. II. Alternative Worlds IV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds

V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac VI. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds Pt. III. The Arts of Anthropology VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child.