The Scientific Revolution's view of "nature"
 

"nature," at the end of the eighteenth century, was "an organizing category of thought [...] placed in opposition to 'culture'"
 
"a nature that is passive, subdueable, inherently inert and obedient once its physical laws have been uncovered"

> from Barbara Duden's The Women Beneath the Skin A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1998)

> tagged with #culture, #nature, #science

> created March 30, 2026 at 10:01:20 AM


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