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UNINA9910157836203321 |
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Autore |
Preston Claire |
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Titolo |
The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England / / Claire Preston |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 recurso online : illustrations (black and white) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Escritura cientÃfica - Historia - Siglo XVII |
Technical writing - History - 17th century |
Didactic literature - History and criticism |
Science in literature - History - 17th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction--'A distemper of learning' : the languages of science -- Orlando Curioso : the lapsarian style of Thomas Browne -- Equivocal Boyle and the enamelled telescope -- 'A blessing in the wilderness' : fictions of polity and the place of science -- Dining out in the republic of letters : the rhetoric of scientific correspondence -- The counsel of herbs : scientific georgic. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkable 17th-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery. |
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