- Additional Authors
- Emanuel, Susan.
- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Poétiques du discours cosmologique au XVIIe siècle. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Poétiques du discours cosmologique au XVIIe siècle.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- part 1. Cosmic imagination. Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusions: dreams and fictions -- part 2. Conjectural machines. Fontenelle: unveiling the spectacle of the world ; Machine and spectacle ; Order of the narrative, harmony of the world ; Fontenelle's visions ; Huygens: the theoretical voyage of The Cosmotheoros ; Hypotheses, conjectures, fictions ; Architectonics of the narrative ; Conclusions: hypotheses and narratives -- part 3. Observing monsters. Robert Hooke: "the armed eye" ; Micrographia ; From enargeia to evidence ; Hooke the astronomer ; Poetics of proof ; Instruments and images ; Margaret Cavendish: the battle of instruments ; "A high heel to a short leg" ; A teratology of knowledge ; The empire of fiction.
- LCCN
- 2011004410
- OCLC
- ssj0000635259
- Author
Aït-Touati, Frédérique, 1977-
- Title
Fictions of the cosmos [electronic resource] : science and literature in the seventeenth century / Frédérique Aït-Touati ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
- Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011], ©2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Emanuel, Susan.