Fictional Matter : Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel.

Fictional Matter argues that chemical definitions of particulate matter shaped eighteenth-century British science and literature. In this lucid, revisionary analysis of corpuscular science, Helen Thompson advances a new account of how the experimental production of empirical knowledge defined the em...

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Main Author: Thompson, Helen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016
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