https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7 en-us 2023-05-18 02:19:44 UTC 2023-05-20 18:12:18 UTC hello@padlet.com saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597730466 LINK]]> 2023-05-19 15:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597730466 saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597789515 Its complete title: The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others]]> 2023-05-19 16:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597789515 saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597791435 Abortion, pregnancy, and sex are some topics that Wanley devotes several chapters to. For example, "Of such Women whose Children have been petrified, and turned to Stone in their wombs" is the title of the third chapter. Moreover, chapter 33 addresses changes of sex: "It is no Lye or Fable that Females may be turned into Male" (Wanley 52). I found this source useful because it deals with topics that were relevant for the eighteen century and that percolated into literature. For example, as we have seen in class, theatre was concerned with cross dressing and toying with the idea of gender, as it is observed in Shakespeare’s twelfth night. Furthermore, the fascination, or terror, with pregnancy can be observed in Milton’s Paradise Lost as well, since Chaos is a womb and the word "abortive" is used a couple of times throughout the text. ]]> 2023-05-19 16:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597791435 saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597828744 John Donne’s last work, "Death’s duell", is mainly concerned with his ponderings upon the body, the afterlife, and death. In page 7 of this text, Donne states that "while wee are in the body wee are dead (...) while wee are in the body, wee are but in a pilgrimage" as if our sensorial experiences were a liminal occurrence. I find this source relevant because, first of all, John Donne is a crucial author for this period, and his works reverberate to this day, and second of all, because Donne’s "Death duell" shows how spirituality is experienced through the body and how erotic religion can be.]]> 2023-05-19 17:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597828744 saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597829047 I found that in Sciothericum telescopicum one of the main reasons as to why this new inventions were key to the science of the period is the following: "the Telescope and Microscope discover to us new Worlds and Animals, extending the Creation farther than 'twas possible for the Ancients to imagine". As stated by the author, the invention of the telescope and microscope placed the new philosophers above the ancients, something that before was unfathomable, and therein lies the relevance of this text. Moreover, I link this to the senses in how Margaret Cavendish, in the Blazing World, makes a critique of such technology because, as the narrator of her description of a new world tells us, "we take more delight in artifical delusions, than in natural truths". Thus, we can see that technology had a direct relationship with the senses. While for some technology perfected the senses, for others it made them lost touch with their bodies and therefore with nature. ]]> 2023-05-19 17:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597829047 saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597919518 Its complete title: Death’s Duel Or, A Consolation to the Soul Against the Dying Life and Living Death of the Body. Delivered in a Sermon at Whitehall, Before the King's Majesty, in the Beginning of Lent, 1630. By that Late Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Dr. in Divinity, and Dean of St. Paul's, London. Being His last Sermon, and Called by His Majesty's household, the Doctor's own Funeral Sermon.]]> 2023-05-19 18:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597919518 saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597924469 LINK]]> 2023-05-19 18:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597924469 saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597943666 Its complete title: Sciothericum telescopicum, or, A new contrivance of adapting a telescope to an horizontal dial for observing the moment of time by day or night useful in all astronomical observations, and for regulating and adjusting curious pendulum-watches and other time-keepers, with proper tables requisite thereto]]> 2023-05-19 19:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597943666 saraestrada54 https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597943718 LINK]]> 2023-05-19 19:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/saraestrada54/d87pmogytx8poga7/wish/2597943718