Reckoning words
Subtitle: Baconian science and the construction of truth in English Renaissance culture
By: Diana B. Altegoer.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses; Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 -- Influence.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Science -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.; Philosophy of nature in literature.; Renaissance -- England.; Reality in literature.; Truth in literature.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Description: "Using the tools of rhetorical and poetic analysis, this study of Baconian science reveals how the construction of scientific and philosophical discourse in early-modern England cannot be separated from literary-rhetorical production and political partisanship. By calling into question the usual way of dividing disciplines into logic, rhetoric, and poetics, Bacon suggested the constructed nature of these disciplines, and of traditional forms of knowledge.

Bacon did not call into being a fissure of science and the arts; rather he conceptualized a unique relationship between the two by creating an experimental (and rhetoricized) "logic" that allowed nature to shape and fashion the perceiving mind of the witness in order to advance the political fortunes of Elizabethan and Stuart England."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index.