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Genre/Form: | Kongress Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Arts of 17th-century science. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2002 (OCoLC)606871695 Online version: Arts of 17th-century science. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2002 (OCoLC)607765146 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Claire Jowitt; Diane Watt |
ISBN: | 0754604179 9780754604174 |
OCLC Number: | 49833388 |
Description: | xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt -- The transparent man and the king's heart / Jonathan Sawday -- "Things which are not" : poetic and scientific attitudes to non-entities in the seventeenth century / Anthony R. Archdeacon -- Points mean prizes : how early-modern mathematics hedged its bets between idealism and the world / Jess Edwards -- Bantering with scripture : Dr. Archibald Pitcairne and articulate irreligion in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh / David E. Shuttleton -- The politics of morbidity : plague symbolism in martyrdom and medical anatomy / Peter Mitchell -- Restoring all things from the curse : millenarianism, alchemy, science and politics in the writings of Gerrard Winstanley / Andrew Bradstock -- Providence, earth's treasury and the common weal : Baconianism and metaphysics in millenarian utopian texts 1641-55 / Carola Scott-Luckens -- Journeys beyond frontiers : knowledge, subjectivity and outer space in Margaret Cavendish's The blazing world (1666) / Bronwen Price -- Gender, science and midwifery : Jane Sharp, The midwives book (1671) / Elaine Hobby -- The masculine matrix : male births and the scientific imagination in early-modern England / Ruth Gilbert -- From nymph to nymphomania : "linear perspectives" on female sexuality / Bettina Mathes -- Thomas Harriot and John White : ethnography and ideology in the New World / Andrew Hadfield -- "Adding to the world" : colonial adventure and anxiety in the writings of John Donne / Richard Sugg -- Alternative planet : Kepler's Somnium (1634) and the New World / Mary Baine Campbell. |
Other Titles: | Arts of seventeenth-century science |
Responsibility: | edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt. |
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