The Poetics Of Scientific Investigation In Seventeenth-Century England

This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkable 17th-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.

• | Author: Claire Preston
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 17, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 310 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0198704801
• | ISBN-13: 9780198704805