An Essay concerning the Origine of Sciences and the Mode of Scriblerian Satire

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STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1353/sip.2023.a910772

Pat Rogers

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Abstract: A short satire, An Essay of the Learned Martinus Scriblerus concerning the Origine of Sciences , concerns the alleged role of an anthropoid race of pygmies in the evolution of human knowledge. It was first published in the Miscellanies of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift in 1732, and has been attributed to both of these authors. The aim of this article is to provide the first full account of the Essay in its context. This draws on information relating to the literary, biographical, and bibliographical circumstances in which members of the Scriblerian group produced the work. Among issues considered are relevant controversies engaged in by fellows of the Royal Society, notably Dr. John Woodward; the debt of the Essay to a pioneering work of physical anthropology, Edward Tyson's Orang-Outang (1699), first explored by Richard Nash; and a survey of other sources, as revealed by citations and hidden allusions. The concluding argument seeks to establish the close filiation of the Essay with other Scriblerian satires and to suggest that it serves as a template for the subgenre that these came to embody. A case is made for the key role in composition taken along with Pope by Dr. John Arbuthnot, FRS, a polymath with special interests in comparative anatomy.

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论科学的起源与文人讽刺的模式

摘要:《学者马提努斯·斯克里布勒斯关于科学起源的随笔》是一篇短小的讽刺文章，它关注的是一个类人猿种族——俾格米人在人类知识的进化中所扮演的角色。它于1732年首次发表在亚历山大·波普和乔纳森·斯威夫特的《杂记》中，并被认为是这两位作者的作品。这篇文章的目的是提供第一个完整的文章在其上下文中。这种方法利用了与文学、传记和书目环境相关的信息，Scriblerian小组的成员在这些环境中创作了这部作品。在讨论的问题中，有皇家学会成员所参与的相关争议，特别是约翰·伍德沃德博士;《随笔》要归功于体质人类学的先驱作品——爱德华·泰森的《橘塘》(1699)，最早由理查德·纳什探索;以及对其他来源的调查，通过引用和隐藏的典故来揭示。结论性的论点试图建立《随笔》与其他斯克里布里讽刺作品的密切联系，并暗示它是这些讽刺作品所体现的亚体裁的模板。约翰·阿巴斯诺特(John Arbuthnot)博士是一位对比较解剖学有特殊兴趣的博学家，他在波普的作品中扮演了关键角色。

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1903, Studies in Philology addresses scholars in a wide range of disciplines, though traditionally its strength has been English Medieval and Renaissance studies. SIP publishes articles on British literature before 1900 and on relations between British literature and works in the Classical, Romance, and Germanic Languages.