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Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s : converging realms / / edited by Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
| Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s : converging realms / / edited by Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
| Disciplina | 001.09032 |
| Soggetto topico | Literature and science - History - 17th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4438-7605-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480519903321 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s : converging realms / / edited by Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
| Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s : converging realms / / edited by Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
| Disciplina | 001.09032 |
| Soggetto topico | Literature and science - History - 17th century |
| ISBN | 1-4438-7605-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- Part I. Collecting, historicising, and imagining : approaching science in the nineteenth century. The collector at home / Alda Rodrigues ; "The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry": signs of nature's history in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural hours / Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves ; Science and imagination in Emily Dickinson's Poetry / Joana Espain -- Part II: Science as a problem: knowledge and suspicion. Through the ironic eye: science and scientific experiments in Marcin Wolski's satirical dystopia Laboratory no, 8 / Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk ; "No man can put all the world in a book": on the concept of scienctific representation in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian / Pedro Almeida and Ines Evangelista Marques ; Scientific expression in Thomas Pynchon's work / Ana Rull Suarez -- Part III. Consilience and "the two cultures". The presence of science in Gwendolyn MacEwen's cosmic vision: an ephemeral creation of order out of chaos / M. Luz González-Rodriguez ; Science imparted by literature: a meeting of "the two cultures" in A.S. Byatt's fiction / Alexandra Cheira ; The idea is the thing: science plays after Copenhagen / Teresa Botelho -- Part IV. "Medical literature": exchanges and convergence. The fantasy of ectogenesis in interwar Britain: texts and contexts / Aline Ferreira ; Dr W.H.R. Rivers and Dr Lewis R. Yealland: the literary representation of scientific discourse in the deployment of power / David Griffiths ; Speaking with angels: hell and madness in António Lobo Antunes' Conhecimento do inferno (a health humanities perspective) / Ricardo Rúben Rato Rodrigues ; The paradox of reading autistic fiction / Makai Péter Kristóf. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792740003321 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s : converging realms / / edited by Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
| Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s : converging realms / / edited by Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
| Disciplina | 001.09032 |
| Soggetto topico | Literature and science - History - 17th century |
| ISBN | 1-4438-7605-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- Part I. Collecting, historicising, and imagining : approaching science in the nineteenth century. The collector at home / Alda Rodrigues ; "The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry": signs of nature's history in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural hours / Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves ; Science and imagination in Emily Dickinson's Poetry / Joana Espain -- Part II: Science as a problem: knowledge and suspicion. Through the ironic eye: science and scientific experiments in Marcin Wolski's satirical dystopia Laboratory no, 8 / Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk ; "No man can put all the world in a book": on the concept of scienctific representation in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian / Pedro Almeida and Ines Evangelista Marques ; Scientific expression in Thomas Pynchon's work / Ana Rull Suarez -- Part III. Consilience and "the two cultures". The presence of science in Gwendolyn MacEwen's cosmic vision: an ephemeral creation of order out of chaos / M. Luz González-Rodriguez ; Science imparted by literature: a meeting of "the two cultures" in A.S. Byatt's fiction / Alexandra Cheira ; The idea is the thing: science plays after Copenhagen / Teresa Botelho -- Part IV. "Medical literature": exchanges and convergence. The fantasy of ectogenesis in interwar Britain: texts and contexts / Aline Ferreira ; Dr W.H.R. Rivers and Dr Lewis R. Yealland: the literary representation of scientific discourse in the deployment of power / David Griffiths ; Speaking with angels: hell and madness in António Lobo Antunes' Conhecimento do inferno (a health humanities perspective) / Ricardo Rúben Rato Rodrigues ; The paradox of reading autistic fiction / Makai Péter Kristóf. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828420103321 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imperfect creatures : vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 / / Lucinda Cole
| Imperfect creatures : vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 / / Lucinda Cole |
| Autore | Cole Lucinda |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina | 614.43 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Animals in literature Insects in literature Literature and science - History - 17th century Literature and science - History - 18th century |
| ISBN |
0-472-90063-3
0-472-12155-3 |
| Classificazione | NAT001000LIT019000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Reading beneath the Grain -- Rats, Witches, Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion -- Swarming Things: Dearth and the Plagues of Egypt in Wither and Cowley -- "Observe the Frog": Imperfect Creatures, Neuroanatomy, and the Problem of the Human -- Libertine Biopolitics: Dogs, Bitches, and Parasites in Shadwell, Rochester, and Gay -- What Happened to the Rats? Hoarding, Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island -- Afterword: We Have Never Been Perfect. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136353803321 |
Cole Lucinda
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| Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / / Lawrence Lipking
| What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / / Lawrence Lipking |
| Autore | Lipking Lawrence |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 001.09/032 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - History - 17th century
Science - History - 17th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-5017-0439-7
0-8014-5484-0 0-8014-5485-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459817503321 |
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Lipking Lawrence
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| Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / / Lawrence Lipking
| What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / / Lawrence Lipking |
| Autore | Lipking Lawrence |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 001.09/032 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - History - 17th century
Science - History - 17th century |
| ISBN |
1-5017-0439-7
0-8014-5484-0 0-8014-5485-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787287703321 |
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Lipking Lawrence
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| Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / / Lawrence Lipking
| What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / / Lawrence Lipking |
| Autore | Lipking Lawrence |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 001.09/032 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - History - 17th century
Science - History - 17th century |
| ISBN |
1-5017-0439-7
0-8014-5484-0 0-8014-5485-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817394003321 |
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Lipking Lawrence
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| Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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