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1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-258) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Cosmic imagination. Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusions: dreams and fictions -- part 2. Conjectural machines. Fontenelle: unveiling the spectacle of the world ; Machine and spectacle ; Order of the narrative, harmony of the world ; Fontenelle's visions ; Huygens: the theoretical voyage of The Cosmotheoros ; Hypotheses, conjectures, fictions ; Architectonics of the narrative ; Conclusions: hypotheses and narratives -- part 3. Observing monsters. Robert Hooke: "the armed eye" ; Micrographia ; From enargeia to evidence ; Hooke the astronomer ; Poetics of proof ; Instruments and images ; Margaret Cavendish: the battle of instruments ; "A high heel to a short leg" ; A teratology of knowledge ; The empire of fiction. |
| Summary |
During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment the boundary between science and literature was not as clear as it is today. 'Fictions of the Cosmos' explores the evolving relationship that ensued between fiction and astronomical authority during this period. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cosmology in literature.
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Cosmology in literature. |
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Literature and science.
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Literature and science. |
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Cosmology -- History.
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Cosmology. |
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History. |
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European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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European literature. |
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17th century |
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1600-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Emanuel, Susan.
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| Added Title |
Poétiques du discours cosmologique au XVIIe siècle. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011189008
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aït-Touati, Frédérique, 1977- Poétiques du discours cosmologique au XVIIe siècle. English. Fictions of the cosmos. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2011], ©2011 9780226011226 (DLC) 2011004410 (OCoLC)701330477 |
| ISBN |
9780226011240 (electronic book) |
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0226011240 (electronic book) |
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1283281570 |
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9781283281577 |
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9780226011226 |
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0226011224 |
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