The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England Poetics of scientific investigation in 17th century England Preston, Claire creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. enk 2015 First edition. monographic eng print ix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm "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 them, scientists, natural historians, poets, dramatists, and essayists produced new, adjusted, or hybrid literary forms. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England examines those forms and that literary-scientific texture, as well as representations of the scientific--the laboratory, collaborative experimental retirement, and the canons of scientific conversation--and proposes that the writing of seventeenth-century science mirrors the intellectual and investigative processes of early-modern science itself"--Jacket. Introduction--'A distemper of learning' : the languages of science -- Orlando Curioso : the lapsarian style of Thomas Browne -- Equivocal Boyle and the enamelled telescope -- 'A blessing in the wilderness' : fictions of polity and the place of science -- Dining out in the republic of letters : the rhetoric of scientific correspondence -- The counsel of herbs : scientific georgic. Claire Preston. Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-272) and index. e-uk-en Technical writing History 17th century Didactic literature History and criticism Science in literature History 17th century Technical writing England History 17th century Didactic literature, English History and criticism Literature and science England History 17th century English prose literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Sir Browne, Thomas 1605-1682 Literary style Boyle, Robert 1627-1691 Literary style Didactic literature Science in literature Technical writing 1600-1699 fast PR149.S4 P74 2015 808.0666 9780198704805 0198704801 2015943219 NLE 150821 20170927134442.0 in00003759604 eng