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The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England Preston, Claire (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Professor of Renaissance Literature, Queen Mary University of London)
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Preston, Claire (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Professor of Renaissance Literature, Queen Mary University of London)
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 remarkableseventeenth-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.
320 pages, 25 black-and-white halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 17, 2016 |
| Original release date | 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198704805 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 310 |
| Dimensions | 224 × 145 × 25 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |