The Curious Eye is a book about the impact of optical technologies, including the microscope, the telescope, and the camera obscura, on seventeenth century English thought.
The Curious Eye is a book about the impact of optical technologies, including the microscope, the telescope, and the camera obscura, on seventeenth century English thought.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Erin Webster is an Assistant Professor of English at William & Mary, where she teaches courses in early modern literature, including Milton, and on the intersection of literature and scientific thought.
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Introduction 1: Poetry as Optical Technology 2: Language Reform and the Lens of Simile in Experimentalist Texts 3: Envisioning Empire in Bacon, Hooke, and Cavendish 4: The Physics of Vision in Kepler, Descartes, and Milton 5: Perspective as a Conceptual Tool in Milton and Newton 6: The Optics of Virtue in Boyle, Cowley, and Behn Postscript: Prosthetic and Embodied Vision
Introduction 1: Poetry as Optical Technology 2: Language Reform and the Lens of Simile in Experimentalist Texts 3: Envisioning Empire in Bacon, Hooke, and Cavendish 4: The Physics of Vision in Kepler, Descartes, and Milton 5: Perspective as a Conceptual Tool in Milton and Newton 6: The Optics of Virtue in Boyle, Cowley, and Behn Postscript: Prosthetic and Embodied Vision
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