The Arts of 17th-Century Science : Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture.

The Arts of 17th-Century Science : Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture.

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 wi...

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Main Author: Jowitt, Claire
Other Authors: Watt, Diane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2002
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Science > History > 17th century.
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.
North America > In literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Transparent Man and the King's Heart
  • PART I: PHILOSOPHY, THOUGHT AND NATURAL KNOWLEDGE
  • 2 'Things Which Are Not': Poetic and Scientific Attitudes to Non-entities in the Seventeenth Century
  • 3 Points Mean Prizes: How Early-Modern Mathematics Hedged its Bets Between Idealism and the World
  • 4 Bantering with Scripture: Dr Archibald Pitcairne and Articulate Irreligion in Late Seventeenth-century Edinburgh
  • PART II: RELIGION, POLITICS AND THE NATURAL WORLD
  • 5 The Politics of Morbidity: Plague Symbolism in Martyrdom and Medical Anatomy
  • 6 Restoring all Things from the Curse: Millenarianism, Alchemy, Science and Politics in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley
  • 7 Providence, Earth's 'Treasury' and the Common Weal: Baconianism and Metaphysics in Millenarian Utopian Texts 1641-55
  • PART III: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT
  • 8 Journeys Beyond Frontiers: Knowledge, Subjectivity and Outer Space in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666)
  • 9 Gender, Science and Midwifery: Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book (1671)
  • 10 The Masculine Matrix: Male Births and the Scientific Imagination in Early-Modern England
  • 11 From Nymph to Nymphomania: 'Linear Perspectives' on Female Sexuality
  • PART IV: NEW WORLDS AND NEW PHILOSOPHIES
  • 12 Thomas Harriot and John White: Ethnography and Ideology in the New World
  • 13 'Adding to the World': Colonial Adventure and Anxiety in the Writings of John Donne
  • 14 Alternative Planet: Kepler's Somnium (1634) and the New World
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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