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During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds - geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. Mary Baine Campbell analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade. With over 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.