Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

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Juliet Cummins, David Burchell
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 241 Seiten
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
Bibliography
213
Index
233
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