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Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. She is the coauthor of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 and the editor of Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (both Zone Books). Katharine Park's book Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books, 1998), coauthored with Lorraine Daston, won the Pfizer Prize for the best book in the history of science. She is Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
In this learned and well-illustrated work Daston and Park explore the attitudes of scientists, churchmen and philosophers to wonders of nature in western Europe between the high Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. Intellectuals and clerics alike were fascinated by monsters and strange phenomena, by a natural world filled with magic, myth and beauty. Explanations of such things in print and depictions of them in art were used to justify religious polemic, support princely power and further scientific inquiry. Only in the 18th century were ancient and medieval beliefs about the natural and supernatural world coming to be shaken by a new empiricism and scepticism. This is a intriguing study, expertly executed. (Kirkus UK)
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