The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

AvClaire Preston

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-28
Mått:133 x 214 x 17 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780192867032
Utmärkelser:Shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and

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Claire Preston is Professor of Renaissance Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Bee (Reaktion, 2006), and Edith Wharton's Social Register (Macmillan/St Martin's, 2000). She is the recipient of Guggenheim and British Academy research awards and of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy.

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It is no wonder that Claire Preston's scrupulously well-researched The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England is such a pleasure to read ... Inspired by Enlightenment reason and Brownian fecundity alike, Preston's study does right by both the early modern era and our own.

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Introduction 'A Distemper of Learning': The Languages of Science 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 Bibliography Index