| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Celestial speculations -- Light, perception, and revelation -- Seeing in colour -- Understanding the eye -- Perception and the body -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Perception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the period, drawing novel connections between treatments of perception as an embodied phenomenon and the creative methods employed by natural philosophers. Covering a wealth of literary, theological, and pedagogical texts that engage with astronomy, optics, ophthalmology, and the body, it argues for the significance of analogies for conceptualising and explaining new scientific ideas. As well as identifying their use in religious and topographical poetry, the book addresses how analogies are visible in material culture through objects such as orreries, camera obscuras, and aeolian harps. It makes the vital claim that scientific concepts become intertwined with Christian discourse through reinterpretations of origins and signs, the scope of the created universe, and the limits of embodied knowledge."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation -- History -- 18th century.
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Perception.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Perception |
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Senses and sensation |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: |
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Print version: Powell, Rosalind. Perception and analogy. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021 1526157047 9781526157041 (OCoLC)1241732212 |
| ISBN |
9781526157058 (PDF ebook) |
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1526157039 |
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1526157055 |
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9781526157034 (electronic bk.) |
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1526157047 |
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9781526157041 |
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