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The Conway Letters
The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their Friends, 1642-1684
Inbunden, 1992
3640 kr
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Lady Anne Conway was a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. The Conway Letters is the record of her friendship with the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, which began when he acted as her unofficial tutor in philosophy …
Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory
The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite
Häftad, 1997
612 kr
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To English poets and writers of the seventeenth century, as to their predecessors, mountains were ugly protuberances which disfigured nature and threatened the symmetry of earth; they were symbols God’s wrath. Yet, less than two centuries later the romantic poets sang in praise of mountain …
Newton Demands the Muse
Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets
Av Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Marjorie Hope Nicholson
Inbunden, 1979
980 kr
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This Long Disease, My Life
Alexander Pope and the Sciences
Av Marjorie Hope Nicolson, George Sebastian Rousseau
Häftad, 2015
1014 kr
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When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to "this long disease, my life," his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several physicians, the authors present …
Newton Demands the Muse
Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets
Häftad, 2015
411 kr
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In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet of a great advance in scientific thought. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously …
This Long Disease, My Life
Alexander Pope and the Sciences
Av Marjorie Hope Nicolson, George Sebastian Rousseau
Inbunden, 2016
2655 kr
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When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to "this long disease, my life," his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several physicians, the authors present …
Newton Demands the Muse
Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets
Inbunden, 2016
1700 kr
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In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet of a great advance in scientific thought. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously …
Virtuoso
Av Thomas Shadwell, David Stuart Rhodes m. fl.
Häftad, 1966
380 kr
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First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as its target no less than the Royal Society of London. Shadwell's barbs hit their targets often and cleanly. In 1689 he …
This Long Disease, My Life
Alexander Pope and the Sciences
Av George Sebastian Rousseau, Marjorie Hope Nicolson
E-bok, 2015
715 kr
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When in his "e;Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"e; Pope referred to "e;this long disease, my life,"e; his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several …
Newton Demands the Muse
Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets
E-bok, 2015
562 kr
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This book offers a revealing analysis of the influence of Isaac Newton's Opticks on the poetic imagination during the first half of the eighteenth century. Marjorie Hope Nicolson considers the impact of Newtonian theories on the descriptive and ';scientific' poets, and the aesthetic and …
