The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture / edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt.
2002
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Title
The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture / edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt.
Created/published
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2002.
Description
xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Associated name
Note
Papers presented at the Science and literature in the seventeenth century conference, Aberystwyth [Wales], summer 1997.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-266) and index.
Contents
The transparent man and the king's heart / Jonathan Sawday
'Things which are not' : poetic and scientific attitudes to non-entities in the seventeenth century / Anthony R. Archdeacon
Points mean prizes : how early-modern mathematics hedged its bets between idealism and the world / Jess Edwards
Bantering with Scripture : Dr Archibald Pitcairne and articulate irreligion in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh / David E. Shuttleton
The politics of morbidity : plague symbolism in martyrdom and medical anatomy / Peter Mitchell
Restoring all things from the curse : millenarianism, alchemy, science and politics in the writings of Gerrard Winstanley / Andrew Bradstock
Providence, Earth's 'treasury' and the common weal : Baconianism and metaphysics in millenarian utopian texts 1641-55 / Carola Scott-Luckens
Journeys beyond frontiers : knowledge, subjectivity and outer space in Margaret Cavendish's The blazing world (1666) / Bronwen Price
Gender, science and midwifery : Jane Sharp, The midwives book (1671) / Elaine Hobby
The masculine matrix : male births and the scientific imagination in early-modern England / Ruth Gilbert
From nymph to nymphomania : 'linear perspectives' on female sexuality / Bettina Mathes
Thomas Harriot and John White : ethnography and ideology in the New World / Andrew Hadfield
'Adding to the world' : colonial adventure and anxiety in the writings of John Donne / Richard Sugg
Alternative planet : Kepler's Somnium (1634) and the New World / Mary Baine Campbell.
'Things which are not' : poetic and scientific attitudes to non-entities in the seventeenth century / Anthony R. Archdeacon
Points mean prizes : how early-modern mathematics hedged its bets between idealism and the world / Jess Edwards
Bantering with Scripture : Dr Archibald Pitcairne and articulate irreligion in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh / David E. Shuttleton
The politics of morbidity : plague symbolism in martyrdom and medical anatomy / Peter Mitchell
Restoring all things from the curse : millenarianism, alchemy, science and politics in the writings of Gerrard Winstanley / Andrew Bradstock
Providence, Earth's 'treasury' and the common weal : Baconianism and metaphysics in millenarian utopian texts 1641-55 / Carola Scott-Luckens
Journeys beyond frontiers : knowledge, subjectivity and outer space in Margaret Cavendish's The blazing world (1666) / Bronwen Price
Gender, science and midwifery : Jane Sharp, The midwives book (1671) / Elaine Hobby
The masculine matrix : male births and the scientific imagination in early-modern England / Ruth Gilbert
From nymph to nymphomania : 'linear perspectives' on female sexuality / Bettina Mathes
Thomas Harriot and John White : ethnography and ideology in the New World / Andrew Hadfield
'Adding to the world' : colonial adventure and anxiety in the writings of John Donne / Richard Sugg
Alternative planet : Kepler's Somnium (1634) and the New World / Mary Baine Campbell.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
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PR438.S35 A78 2002