The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

by Claire Preston

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How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their work. Inspired laymen were quick to borrow from the new philosophy and from practising scientists in order to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Between...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0192867032

ISBN13:9780192867032

Release Date:October 2022

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:310 Pages

Weight:0.89 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 9.0"

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