The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth century England / Claire Preston.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2015.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. List of abbreviations. Introdutcion: A distemper of learning: the languages of science. 1. Orlando curioso: the lapsarian style of Thomas Browne 2. Equivocal Boyle and the enamelled telescope 3. A blessing in the wilderness: fictions of polity and the place of science 4. Dining out in the republic of letters: the rhetoric of scientifc correspondence 5. The counsel of herbs: scientific Georgic. Bibliography. Index
