| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 214 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 45
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Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 45.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : making early modern science and literature -- 1. Model worlds : Philip Sidney, William Gilbert, and the experiment of worldmaking -- 2. From embryology to parthenogenesis : the birth of the writer in Edmund Spenser and William Harvey -- 3. Reading through Galileo's telescope : Johannes Kepler's dream for reading knowledge -- 4. Books written of the wonders of these glasses : Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, and Margaret Cavendish's theory of reading -- Afterword : fiction and the Sokal hoax. |
| Summary |
Brings together key works in early modern science and literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish) to explore how two cultures and disciplines, science and literature, developed through a shared aesthetic of knowledge. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.
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Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630. |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Science in literature.
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Science in literature. |
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Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Literature and science. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Literature and science -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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| Chronological Term |
16th century |
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Books and reading. |
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Renaissance -- England.
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Renaissance. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spiller, Elizabeth. Science, reading, and Renaissance literature. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003064600 |
| ISBN |
0511195273 (electronic book) |
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9780511195273 (electronic book) |
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9780521830867 (hardback) |
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0521830869 (hardback) |
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0511195931 (electronic book) |
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9780511195938 (electronic book) |
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0511194609 |
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9780511194603 |
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9780511193866 |
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0511193866 |
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9780511484018 |
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0511484011 |
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0521830869 (Cloth) |
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0511193866 |
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9786610477852 |
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661047785X |
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