 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 Seiten
...historical, artistic, biblical and mythological allusion. Defending his use of myth, Darwin claims that 'Many of the important operations of Nature were shadowed or allegorized in the heathen mythology', and invokes Bacon's scientific expositions in The Wisdom of the Ancients (p. vii). The passage below,... | |
 | Noah Heringman - 2004 - 340 Seiten
...itself on literary grounds as properly aesthetic forms of natural knowledge. He remarks, first, that "many of the important operations of Nature were shadowed or allegorized in the heathen mythology"; the marriage of Venus and Vulcan, as an allegory of volcanism, is one of a great many such emblems... | |
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Many of the important operations of nature were shadowed or allegorized in the heathen mythology, as the first Cupid springing from the Egg of Night, the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, the Rape of Proserpine, the Congress of Jupiter and Juno, The Death... 