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- catalog abstract ""Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework, literary texts gain substance and intelligibility by being considered as instances of early modern knowledge production. At the same time, early modern science maintains strong affiliations with poetry because it understands art as a basis for producing knowledge. In identifying these interconnections between literature and science, this book contributes to scholarship in literary history, history of reading and the book, science studies, and the history of academic disciplines."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13308031.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Intellectual life 16th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework, literary texts gain substance and intelligibility by being considered as instances of early modern knowledge production. At the same time, early modern science maintains strong affiliations with poetry because it understands art as a basis for producing knowledge.".
- catalog description "In identifying these interconnections between literature and science, this book contributes to scholarship in literary history, history of reading and the book, science studies, and the history of academic disciplines."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : making early modern science and literature -- 1. Model worlds : Philip Sidney, William Gilbert, and the experiment of worldmaking -- 2. From embryology to parthenogenesis : the birth of the writer in Edmund Spenser and William Harvey -- 3. Reading through Galileo's telescope : Johannes Kepler's dream for reading knowledge -- 4. Books written of the wonders of these glasses : Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, and Margaret Cavendish's theory of reading -- Afterword : fiction and the Sokal hoax.".
- catalog extent "xi, 214 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521830869 (hbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 45".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Intellectual life 16th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "PR438.S35 S65 2004".
- catalog subject "Renaissance England.".
- catalog subject "Science in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : making early modern science and literature -- 1. Model worlds : Philip Sidney, William Gilbert, and the experiment of worldmaking -- 2. From embryology to parthenogenesis : the birth of the writer in Edmund Spenser and William Harvey -- 3. Reading through Galileo's telescope : Johannes Kepler's dream for reading knowledge -- 4. Books written of the wonders of these glasses : Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, and Margaret Cavendish's theory of reading -- Afterword : fiction and the Sokal hoax.".
- catalog title "Science, reading, and Renaissance literature : the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670 / Elizabeth Spiller.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".