Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

AvBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

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Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering the possibility of travelers from the moon. 'What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their curiosity to see us, they angled for us like fish? Would that please you?' asks the philosopher. 'Why not?' the Marquise replies. 'As for me, I'd put myself into their nets of my own volition just to have the pleasure of seeing those who caught me'. In this imaginary conversation of three hundred years ago, readers can share the excitement of a new, extremely daring view of the universe. "Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds" ("Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes"), first published in 1686, is one of the best loved classics of the early French enlightenment. Through a series of informal dialogues that take place on successive evenings in the marquise's moonlit gardens, Fontenelle describes the new cosmology of the Copernican world view with matchless clarity, imagination, and wit. Moreover, he boldly makes his interlocutor a woman, inviting female participation in the almost exclusively male province of scientific discourse.The popular Fontenelle lived through an entire century, from 1657 to 1757, and wrote prolifically. H. A. Hargreaves' fresh, appealing translation brings the author's masterpiece to new generations of readers, while the introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart clearly demonstrates the importance of the "Conversations" for the history of science, of women, of literature, and of French civilization, and for the popularization of culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1990-06-22
Mått:140 x 210 x 10 mm
Vikt:181 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:132
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520071711
Översättare:H.A. Hargreaves, H. A. Hargreaves

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Marinbiologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

H. A. Hargreaves is Professor of English at the University of Alberta. His interests range from Shakespeare to science fiction, and he is himself a cutural popularizer, having written as many stories, scripts, and documentaries as he has scholarly articles. Nina Rattner Gelbart is Professor of History at Occidental College, Los Angeles. She has written on Englightenment science, medicine, and utopian novels, and is the author of the prizewinning The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray (California, 1998).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart Translator's Preface Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Preface Dedication The First Evening The Second Evening The Third Evening The Fourth Evening The Fifth Evening Notes

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