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The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England /

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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...

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Main Author: Preston, Claire (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.
Browne, Thomas, > Sir, > 1605-1682 > Literary style.
Boyle, Robert, > 1627-1691 > Literary style.
Didactic literature.
Science in literature.
Technical writing.
1600-1699
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.