Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction. Cosmographical Novelties: Unravelling the Dialectical Fabric of French Prose 1
Chapter 1 Dialectic and Natural Philosophy: An Early Modern Panorama 37
Part I Cosmological Novelties: Natural-Theological, Sceptical, and Revolutionary Subversions
Chapter 2 Natural Theology and Cosmological Novelties: The Huguenot Encyclopaedia and the Jesuit Miscellany 101
Chapter 3 Cosmological Fictions: Sceptical and Revolutionary Uses of the Loci 151
Part II Cosmographical Novelties: Inventing the New World and National Geographies
Chapter 4 Early Modern Cosmography: Definitions and Tensions in Contemporary Scholarship 211
Chapter 5 The Locus from Authority in Cosmography and Geography 225
Chapter 6 Loci in Cosmography and Geography: Probable Disciplines. Defining Novelties, Inventing National Geographies 259
Conclusion. Dialectical Invention: The Discursive Emergence of Novelties and Epistemic Change 313
Appendices 321
Bibliography 365
Index of Names 387