The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fleming, James Dougal

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to maths, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the early-modern generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of knowledge-production. They further investigate the hermeneutic implications for the epistemological authority that tends, in modernity, still to be based on that standard.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317027072
• Artikelnr.: 44863738

Autorenporträt

James Dougal Fleming is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is also the author of Milton's Secrecy: And Philosophical Hermeneutics (Ashgate, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the invention of discovery
1500-1700
James Dougal Fleming; 'That full-sail voyage': travel narratives and astronomical discovery in Kepler and Galileo
Piers Brown; Francis Bacon and the divine hierarchy of nature
Steven Matthews; 'Invention' and 'discovery' as modes of conceptual integration: the case of Thomas Harriot
Michael Booth; The undiscoverable country: occult qualities
scholasticism
and the end of nescience
James Dougal Fleming; Spirits
vitality
and creation in the poetics of Tomasso Campanella and John Donne
Anthony Russell; Perfection of the world and mathematics in late 16th-century Copernican cosmologies
Pietro Daniel Omodeo; Discovery in The World: the case of Descartes
Jacqueline Wernimont; Numbering martyrs: numerology
encyclopedism
and the invention of immanent events in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments
Ryan Netzley; Unearthing radical reform: antiquarianism against discovery
Travis DeCook; The discovery of blackness in the early modern bed-trick
Louise Denmead; Newness and discovery in early-modern France
Vincent Masse; Afterword: the art of the field
James Dougal Fleming; Bibliography; Index.