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Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton
- Title
- Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton / David Carroll Simon.
- Author
- Simon, David Carroll
- Publication
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xi, 297 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century England"--
- Subjects
- Philosophy of nature in literature
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 > Influence
- Observation (Scientific method) > England > History > 17th century
- Empiricism in literature
- England > Intellectual life > 17th century
- Literature and science > England > History > 17th century
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-290) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Atmospheres of understanding : scientific emotion and literary criticism -- "Nonchalance" and the making of knowledge : Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne -- The angle of thought : Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the scientific imagination -- The microscope made easy : Andrew Marvell with Henry Power -- The paradise without : John Milton in the garden -- Postscript.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6822
- ISBN
- 9781501723407
- 1501723405
- LCCN
- 2017048069
- OCLC
- 1008759076
- Author
- Simon, David Carroll, author.
- Title
- Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton / David Carroll Simon.
- Publisher
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-290) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Simon, David Carroll. Light without heat. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501723414 (DLC) 2017052392
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6822