Science, reading, and Renaissance literature : the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670 /

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Brings together key works in early modern science and literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish) to explore how two cultures and disciplines, science and literature, developed thr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spiller, Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 45.
Temas:
Kepler, Johannes, > 1571-1630.
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Science in literature.
Literature and science > England > History > 17th century.
Literature and science > England > History > 16th century.
Books and reading > England > History > 16th century.
Books and reading > England > History > 17th century.
Renaissance > England.
Sciences dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Books and reading.
English literature > Early modern.
Intellectual life.
Literature and science.
Renaissance.
Wetenschappen.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 16e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : making early modern science and literature
  • 1. Model worlds : Philip Sidney, William Gilbert, and the experiment of worldmaking
  • 2. From embryology to parthenogenesis : the birth of the writer in Edmund Spenser and William Harvey
  • 3. Reading through Galileo's telescope : Johannes Kepler's dream for reading knowledge
  • 4. Books written of the wonders of these glasses : Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, and Margaret Cavendish's theory of reading
  • Afterword : fiction and the Sokal hoax.

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