Science, reading, and Renaissance literature : the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670 / / Elizabeth Spiller [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Spiller Elizabeth |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Science in literature Literature and science - England - History - 17th century Literature and science - England - History - 16th century Books and reading - England - History - 16th century Books and reading - England - History - 17th century Renaissance - England |
ISBN |
1-107-14830-8
1-280-47785-7 0-511-19527-3 0-511-19593-1 0-511-19386-6 0-511-31428-0 0-511-48401-1 0-511-19460-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : making early modern science and literature -- ; 1. Model worlds : Philip Sidney, William Gilbert, and the experiment of worldmaking -- ; 2. From embryology to parthenogenesis : the birth of the writer in Edmund Spenser and William Harvey -- ; 3. Reading through Galileo's telescope : Johannes Kepler's dream for reading knowledge -- ; 4. Books written of the wonders of these glasses : Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, and Margaret Cavendish's theory of reading -- Afterword : fiction and the Sokal hoax. |
Altri titoli varianti | Science, Reading, & Renaissance Literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828333503321 |
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