The Arts of 17th-Century Science : Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jowitt, Claire
Otros Autores: Watt, Diane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2002.
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Science > History > 17th century.
Science in literature.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sciences > Histoire > 17e siècle.
English literature > Early modern
Intellectual life
Literature
Literature and science
Science
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.
North America > In literature.
Europe > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
Amérique du Nord > Dans la littérature.
Europe
Great Britain
North America
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Transparent Man and the King's Heart
  • PART I: PHILOSOPHY, THOUGHT AND NATURAL KNOWLEDGE
  • 2 'Things Which Are Not': Poetic and Scientific Attitudes to Non-entities in the Seventeenth Century
  • 3 Points Mean Prizes: How Early-Modern Mathematics Hedged its Bets Between Idealism and the World
  • 4 Bantering with Scripture: Dr Archibald Pitcairne and Articulate Irreligion in Late Seventeenth-century Edinburgh
  • PART II: RELIGION, POLITICS AND THE NATURAL WORLD
  • 5 The Politics of Morbidity: Plague Symbolism in Martyrdom and Medical Anatomy
  • 6 Restoring all Things from the Curse: Millenarianism, Alchemy, Science and Politics in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley
  • 7 Providence, Earth's 'Treasury' and the Common Weal: Baconianism and Metaphysics in Millenarian Utopian Texts 1641-55
  • PART III: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT
  • 8 Journeys Beyond Frontiers: Knowledge, Subjectivity and Outer Space in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666)
  • 9 Gender, Science and Midwifery: Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book (1671)
  • 10 The Masculine Matrix: Male Births and the Scientific Imagination in Early-Modern England
  • 11 From Nymph to Nymphomania: 'Linear Perspectives' on Female Sexuality
  • PART IV: NEW WORLDS AND NEW PHILOSOPHIES
  • 12 Thomas Harriot and John White: Ethnography and Ideology in the New World
  • 13 'Adding to the World': Colonial Adventure and Anxiety in the Writings of John Donne
  • 14 Alternative Planet: Kepler's Somnium (1634) and the New World
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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