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UNINA9910954398203321 |
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Titolo |
The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture / / edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-138-25643-9 |
1-315-24123-4 |
1-351-89443-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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JowittClaire |
WattDiane <1965-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Science - History - 17th century |
Europe Intellectual life 17th century |
North America In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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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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pt. I. Philosophy, thought and natural knowledge -- pt. II. Religion, politics and the natural world -- pt. III. Gender, sexuality and scientific thought -- pt. IV. New worlds and new philosophies. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural world, but entered into competition with them. It is this complex process of competition and negotiation concerning ways of seeing the natural world that is charted by the essays in this book. The collection traces the many overlaps between 'literary' and 'scientific' discourses as writers in this period attempted both to understand imaginatively and empirically the workings of the natural world, and shows that a discrete separation between such discourses and spheres is untenable. |
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