Light without Heat : The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton /

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"Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual cultu...

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Main Author: Simon, David Carroll (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626.
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626 > Influence.
Philosophy of nature in literature.
Observation (Scientific method)
Literature and science.
Intellectual life.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
English literature > Early modern.
Empiricism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Empirisme dans la litterature.
Philosophie de la nature dans la litterature.
Observation (Methode scientifique) > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Litterature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Observation (Scientific method) > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature and science > England > History > 17th century.
England.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siecle.
England > Intellectual life > 17th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century England"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9781501723421

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