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The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England / Claire Preston

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Preston, Claire
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Orlando Curioso: The Lapsarian Style of Thomas Browne -- 2.Equivocal Boyle and the Enamelled Telescope -- 3.`A Blessing in the Wilderness': Fictions of Polity and the Place of Science -- 4.Dining Out in the Republic of Letters: The Rhetoric of Scientific Correspondence -- 5.The Counsel of Herbs: Scientific Georgic.
Summary
This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th 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 17th-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.
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ISBN
9780191780134 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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