Labors of innocence in early modern England
By: Joanna Picciotto.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674049062
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Intellectuals in literature; Labor in literature; Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century; Religion and science -- England -- History -- 17th century; Science -- England -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the intellectual's two bodies; title: Digging up the hortus conclusus; title: "A union of eyes and hands": the Royal Society for the Improving of Natural Knowledge; title: The productive eye; title: The culture of curiosity; title: Instruments of truth; title: Milton and the paradizable reader; title: The professional observer.