Nature's Mutiny by Blom, Philipp -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents Prologue: Winter Landscape

Life without Money The Great Experiment

“God Has Abandoned Us”: Europe, 1570–1600

A Monk on the Run God’s Wind and Waves Harsh Frosts and Burning Sun A Time of Confusion and a Fiery Mountain Pilgrims and Their Hunger Truth and Wine Wine in Vienna The Lights Go Out Witches and Spoiled Harvests The Truth in the Stars Doctor Faustus Infinite Worlds The Tower of Books

The Age of Iron

Hortus Botanicus Revolutionary Places The City Devours Its Children The Magic of Green Cheese The Great Transformation A Picture of the World Idle Talk and Fabrications A Warning and a Call to Repent Tears Too Plentiful to Count The Revolution of the Barrel of a Musket Sell More to Strangers The State as Machine A Profitable Trade The Curse of Silver Officer, Retired The Subversive Republic of Letters Germanus incredibilis Virtue in the Drowning Cell Leviathan An Inventory of Morality

On Comets and Other Celestial Lights

The Madness of Crowds The Antichrist The Messiah and the Whore The Fair on the Ice The Face of Change The Price of Change Tapissier du roi The Public Sphere and the Vices of Bees The Floating Reverend

Epilogue: Supplement to The Fable of the Bees

Songbirds, Wood Lice, and Corals Freedom and Luxury Inherited Compromises New Metaphors The Theology of the Market The Market and the Fortress

Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index Also by Philipp Blom Copyright