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 remarkable seventeenth-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 remarkable seventeenth-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 (Cambridge University Press, 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.
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': Fictions of Polity and 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 * Index
* 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': Fictions of Polity and 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 * Index
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