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The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture
- Title
- The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture / edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Wa ;Burlingtom, VT tt.
- Publication
- Aldershot : Ashgate, c2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 270 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 03-3075
- ISBN
- 0754604179
- LCCN
- 2002108550
- OCLC
- 49833388
- Title
- The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture / edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Wa ;Burlingtom, VT tt.
- Imprint
- Aldershot : Ashgate, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Jowitt, Claire.Watt, Diane, 1965-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 03-3075