The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture / edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jowitt, Claire.

Watt, Diane, 1965-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

American literature.

Science in literature.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

1 The Transparent Man and the King's Heart / Jonathan Sawday 12

Part I Philosophy, Thought and Natural Knowledge

2 'Things Which Are Not': Poetic and Scientific Attitudes to Non-entities in the Seventeenth Century / Anthony R. Archdeacon 25

3 Points Mean Prizes: How Early-Modern Mathematics Hedged its Bets Between Idealism and the World / Jess Edwards 43

4 Bantering with Scripture: Dr Archibald Pitcairne and Articulate Irreligion in Late Seventeenth-century Edinburgh / David E. Shuttleton 58

Part II Religion, Politics and the Natural World

5 The Politics of Morbidity: Plague Symbolism in Martyrdom and Medical Anatomy / Peter Mitchell 77

6 Restoring all Things from the Curse: Millenarianism, Alchemy, Science and Politics in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley / Andrew Bradstock 95

7 Providence, Earth's 'Treasury' and the Common Weal: Baconianism and Metaphysics in Millenarian Utopian Texts 1641-55 / Carola Scott-Luckens 109

Part III Gender, Sexuality and Scientific Thought

8 Journeys Beyond Frontiers: Knowledge, Subjectivity and Outer Space in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666) / Bronwen Price 127

9 Gender, Science and Midwifery: Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book (1671) / Elaine Hobby 146

10 The Masculine Matrix: Male Births and the Scientific Imagination in Early-Modern England / Ruth Gilbert 160

11 From Nymph to Nymphomania: 'Linear Perspectives' on Female Sexuality / Bettina Mathes 177

Part IV New Worlds and New Philosophies

12 Thomas Harriot and John White: Ethnography and Ideology in the New World / Andrew Hadfield 199

13 'Adding to the World': Colonial Adventure and Anxiety in the Writings of John Donne / Richard Sugg 217

14 Alternative Planet: Kepler's Somnium (1634) and the New World / Mary Baine Campbell 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0754604179

OCLC:

49833388