Past Member
Carolyn Merchant
Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
History of Science, Environmental History
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Carolyn Merchant is examining thinkers from medieval times through the seventeenth century who grappled with the tensions between nature as an active, uncontrollable, creative force (natura naturans) as experienced in everyday life versus nature as created world (natura naturata) that could be rationally understood and controlled though the laws of nature.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ph.D.
1967