Science and Literature – serie

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5 produkter

1. 

   Fact and Feeling

   Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination

   Av Jonathan Smith

   Häftad, 1994

   284 kr

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   Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon to argue that literary figures were involved in constructing a methodology that would serve both science and literature, by bringing together reason and imagination.

2. 

   Nuclear Muse

   Literature, Physics and the First Atomic Bomb

   Av John Canaday

   Häftad, 2000

   276 kr

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   Crossing the boundaries between science and the humanities, the author explores the volumes of discourse involved in the construction of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to discover the role rhetoric plays in the formulation and expression of scientific ideas.

3. 

   Seeing New Worlds

   Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-century Natural Science

   Av Laura Dassow Walls

   Häftad, 1995

   282 kr

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   Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American …

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   Natural Eloquence

   Women Reinscribe Science

   Av Barbara T. Gates, Ann B. Shteir

   Inbunden, 1997

   588 kr

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   This is a collection of essays which examines the work of both lesser-known women of science from the 19th century, and such prominent 20th-century figures as Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey. It explores the literary traditions in science which women established.

5. 

   Nuclear Muse

   Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs

   Av John Canaday

   Inbunden, 2000

   259 kr

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   Crossing the boundaries between science and the humanities, the author explores the volumes of discourse involved in the construction of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to discover the role rhetoric plays in the formulation and expression of scientific ideas.