The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England [electronic resource] / Claire Preston.
2016
T11 .P74 2016eb
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Title
The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England [electronic resource] / Claire Preston.
Author
Preston, Claire, author.
ISBN
9780191780134 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) : illustrations
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198704805 doi
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T11 .P74 2016eb
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808.0666
Summary
"How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their work. Inspired laymen were quick to borrow from the new philosophy and from practising scientists in order to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Between them, scientists, natural historians, poets, dramatists, and essayists produced new, adjusted, or hybrid literary forms. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England examines those forms and that literary-scientific texture, as well as representations of the scientific--the laboratory, collaborative experimental retirement, and the canons of scientific conversation--and proposes that the writing of seventeenth-century science mirrors the intellectual and investigative processes of early-modern science itself"-- Book jacket.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
'A distemper of learning' : the languages of science
Orlando Curioso : the lapsarian style of Thomas Browne
Equivocal Boyle and the enamelled telescope
'A blessing in the wilderness' : fictions of polity and the place of science
Dining out in the republic of letters : the rhetoric of scientific correspondence
The counsel of herbs : scientific georgic.
'A distemper of learning' : the languages of science
Orlando Curioso : the lapsarian style of Thomas Browne
Equivocal Boyle and the enamelled telescope
'A blessing in the wilderness' : fictions of polity and the place of science
Dining out in the republic of letters : the rhetoric of scientific correspondence
The counsel of herbs : scientific georgic.