Hobbes's Biblical Beasts
1995; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 23; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/0090591795023002008
ISSN1552-7476
Autores Tópico(s)Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
ResumoBeyond the actual works of nature a poet may now go; but beyond the conceived possibility of nature, never. I can allow a Geographer to make in the Sea, a Fish or a Ship, which by the scale of his map would be two or three hundred mile long, and think it done for ornament, because it is done without the precincts of his undertaking; but when he paints an Elephant so, I presently apprehend it as ignorance and a plain confession of Terra incognita. Hobbes's Answer to Sir William Davenant's Dedicatory Preface to Gondibert, 1651, 81.
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