Publication

2016-02-17 - Oxford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

76,000 words, Guess

Page Count

304 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL27708687M
  • ISBN-139780198704805
  • ISBN-100198704801
  • OCLC Control Number936199583
  • Amazon0198704801
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  • WikidataQ103351959

Classifications

  • LCCT11

Description

This 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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century EnglandHardcoverOxford University Press2016-02-17

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