Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern EnglandJuliet Cummins, David Burchell Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 241 páginas These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the 17th and 18th centuries. Scholars examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding. |
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Mapping Regeneration in The Winters Tale | 37 |
Hobbes Science and Rhetoric Revisited | 53 |
Reformed Catechism and Scientific Method in Miltons | 75 |
Milton Bacon and the Royal | 97 |
Understanding Margaret Cavendish | 125 |
Literary Responses to Robert Boyles Natural Philosophy | 145 |
Miltons Chaos in Popes London | 165 |
Cosmology Geosymmetry and Skepticism in some | 189 |
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Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England David Burchell Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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