The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 17, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780198704805
Description: This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkable 17th-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.