02281nam 2200469 450 991015783620332120221221165432.00-19-178013-8(CKB)3710000000586247(StDuBDS)EDZ0001297999(MiAaPQ)EBC4842074(EXLCZ)99371000000058624720150821d2016 fy| 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England /Claire PrestonOxford :Oxford University Press,2016.1 recurso online illustrations (black and white)0-19-870480-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Escritura científicaHistoriaSiglo XVIIEMBUSTechnical writingHistory17th centuryDidactic literatureHistory and criticismScience in literatureHistory17th centuryEscritura científicaHistoriaTechnical writingHistoryDidactic literatureHistory and criticism.Science in literatureHistory808.0666Preston Claire165425StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910157836203321The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England2837009UNINA