Opitz Auf Dem Weg Zu Seiner Reform Das Widmungsgedicht Fur Hindenberg Von 1624

Fechner, Jörg-Ulrich

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“…In his defense of the German vernacular, Martin Opitz, Bernegger's student, cited Tacitus and the history of invention to show that the moderns could compete with the ancients. 52 As Morris Croll and Joseph Levine have pointed out, it was not English science which originated the broken, exploratory style of the aphorism and the essay, but the international vogue for Seneca and Tacitus. 53 Francis Bacon's vernacular aphorisms and essays, like Montaigne's, fit easily within the Tacitean political culture which by the turn of the seventeenth century was well established in England, as elsewhere.…”

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Mining Tacitus: secrets of empire, nature and art in the reason of state

Keller¹

2012

Br J Hist Sci

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A new political practice, the 'reason of state', informed the ends and practices of natural study in the late sixteenth century. Informed by the study of the Roman historian Tacitus, political writers gathered 'secrets of empire' from both history and travel. Following the economic reorientation of 'reason of state' by Giovanni Botero (1544-1617), such secrets came to include bodies of useful particulars concerning nature and art collected by an expanding personnel of intelligencers. A comparison between various writers describing widescale collections, such as Botero, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Jakob Bornitz (1560-1625) and Matthias Bernegger (1582-1640), reveals that seventeenth-century natural intelligencers across Europe not only were analogous to political intelligencers, but also were sometimes one and the same. Those seeking political prudence cast themselves as miners, prying precious particulars from the recesses of history, experience and disparate disciplines, including mathematics, alchemy and natural philosophy. The seventeenth-century practice of combining searches for secrets of empire, nature and art contests a frequent historiographical divide between empirical science and Tacitism or reason of state. It also points to the ways political cunning shaped the management of information for both politics and the study of nature and art.

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Mining Tacitus: secrets of empire, nature and art in the reason of state

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2012

Br J Hist Sci

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Opitz Auf Dem Weg Zu Seiner Reform Das Widmungsgedicht Fur Hindenberg Von 1624

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