02958oam 2200613I 450 991095439820332120251117090040.01-138-25643-91-315-24123-41-351-89443-910.4324/9781315241234 (CKB)3710000001081279(MiAaPQ)EBC4817677(Au-PeEL)EBL4817677(CaPaEBR)ebr11356831(CaONFJC)MIL996927(OCoLC)975223158(OCoLC)988385433(EXLCZ)99371000000108127920180706e20162002 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe arts of 17th-century science representations of the natural world in European and North American culture /edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (285 pages) illustrationsFirst published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-0417-9 1-351-89444-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Arts of seventeenth-century scienceEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismLiterature and scienceGreat BritainHistory17th centuryScienceHistory17th centuryEuropeIntellectual life17th centuryNorth AmericaIn literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and scienceHistoryScienceHistory820.9/356Jowitt Claire853568Watt Diane1965-1116485MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954398203321The arts of 17th-century science4483198UNINA