Artigo Revisado por pares

Hobbes's Biblical Beasts

1995; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 23; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0090591795023002008

ISSN

1552-7476

Autores

Patricia Springborg,

Tópico(s)

Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

Resumo

Beyond 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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