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200 14$aThe poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England /$fClaire Preston
210  1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2016.
215   $a1 recurso online $cillustrations (black and white)
311   $a0-19-870480-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction--'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.
330 8 $aThis 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.
606   $aEscritura científica$xHistoria$ySiglo XVII$2EMBUS
606   $aTechnical writing$xHistory$y17th century
606   $aDidactic literature$xHistory and criticism
606   $aScience in literature$xHistory$y17th century
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615  0$aTechnical writing$xHistory
615  0$aDidactic literature$xHistory and criticism.
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