The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England |
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| Author:
| Preston, Claire |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-870480-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2016 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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This study examines the way that scientists in the sixteenth and seventeeth 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 sixteenth and seventeeth 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.