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The Marvels of Nature in Buffon and Rameau Get access

Tili Boon Cuillé
in Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France
Published: 15 December 2020
...Taking Fontenelle’s famed comparison of nature to the opera somewhat literally, Chapter 1 considers the representation of natural phenomena in the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire naturelle and Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Zoroastre, which coincided in 1749. Lorraine Daston and Katherine Park have argued...