Title: Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
Description: "This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are 'world[s] / Of destined habitation'. Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science"--
Subjects: Milton, john, 1608-1674, Galilei, galileo, 1564-1642, Literature and science, English literature, history and criticism, Knowledge, Science, Influence, History, Cosmology in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Et les sciences, Wissenschaft, Kosmologie, Littérature et sciences, Histoire, Cosmologie, Dans la littérature