The Palgrave handbook of early modern literature and science Part II. Reading matter. John Donne and the new science Mary Thomas Crane Gods game of hide and seek: Bacon and allegory Kristen Poole Crafting early modern readers: Galileo and his interlocutors Crystal Hall Milton the poetics of matter and the sciences of reading Elizabeth Spiller Reading literally: Boyle the Bible and the book of nature James J. Bono Communicating medical recipes: Robert Boyles genre and rhetorical strategies for print Michelle DiMeo Part III. Pre disciplinary knowledges. The orphic physics of early modern eloquence Jenny C. Mann Hurricanes tempests and the meteorological globe Steve Mentz Milton Leibniz and the measure of motion Shankar Raman No joyful voices: The silence of the urns in Brownes Hydriotaphia and contemporary archaeology Philip Schwyzer Robert Boyles Accidents of an Ague and its precursors Claire Preston Poetico mathematical women and The Ladies Diary Jacqueline D. Wernimont Curiosity and the occult: the ambiguities of science in eighteenth century British literature Barbara M. Benedict Part IV. Modalities. Medical discourses of virginity and the bed trick in Shakespearean drama Kaara L. Peterson Angry Mab with Blisters Plague: the pre modern science of contagion in Romeo and Juliet Mary Floyd Wilson Poetic science: wonder and the seas of cognition in Bacon and Pericles Jean E. Feerick A mythography of water: hydraulic engineering and the imagination Louise Noble Hybrid philosophers: Cavendishs reading of Hookes Micrographia Ian Lawson Making worlds: invention and fiction in Bacon and Cavendish Frédérique Aït Touati Part I. Theorizing early modern science and literature. The grounds of literature and science: Margaret Cavendishs Creature Manifesto Liza Blake Deductions from metaphors: figurative truth poetical language and early modern science Wendy Beth Hyman Imaginary voyages: the new science and its search for a vantage point (or: how the imagination was used to domesticate the exotic) Ofer Gal Francis Bacons literary scientific utopia Angus Fletcher