This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkableseventeenth-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.
This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkableseventeenth-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Claire Preston is Professor of Renaissance Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science (CUP, 2005), Bee (Reaktion, 2006), and Edith Wharton's Social Register (Macmillan/St Martin's, 2000). She is the recipient of Guggenheim and British Academy research awards and of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy. She is the general editor of The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne (8 vols.) (forthcoming, OUP, 2016-19).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 'A distemper of learning': the languages of science 1: Orlando Curioso: the lapsarian style of Thomas Browne 2: Equivocal Boyle and the enamelled telescope 3: 'A blessing in the wilderness': the place of science 4: Dining Out in the Republic of Letters: the rhetoric of scientific correspondence 5: The Counsel of Herbs: scientific georgic Bibliography
Introduction 'A distemper of learning': the languages of science 1: Orlando Curioso: the lapsarian style of Thomas Browne 2: Equivocal Boyle and the enamelled telescope 3: 'A blessing in the wilderness': the place of science 4: Dining Out in the Republic of Letters: the rhetoric of scientific correspondence 5: The Counsel of Herbs: scientific georgic Bibliography
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