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9 produkter
Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
E-bok, 2015
485 kr
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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 …
Sir Thomas Browne
The World Proposed
Av Claire Preston, Reid Barbour
E-bok, 2008
1645 kr
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Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. To understand the period which we more usually refer to as …
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Häftad, 2022
532 kr
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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 Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2015
2810 kr
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The writing of science in the period 1580-1700 is artfully, diffidently, carelessly, boldly, and above all self-consciously literary. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing -- its rhetorical figures, …
Sir Thomas Browne
The World Proposed
Av Reid Barbour, Claire Preston
Inbunden, 2008
2547 kr
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Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. To understand the period which we more usually refer to as …
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science
Häftad, 2009
824 kr
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Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many …
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science
Inbunden, 2005
1235 kr
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Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many …
Bee
Häftad, 2019
163 kr
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Claire Preston’s Bee is a history of our long, complex relationship with this industrious, much-admired insect. The book moves from ancient political descriptions to Renaissance debates about monarchy, to the conversion of the virtuous, civil bee into the dangerous swarm of the Hollywood horror …
