Science, reading, and Renaissance literature : the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670 / Elizabeth Spiller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spiller, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 46.

Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.

Kepler, Johannes.

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

English literature.

Science in literature.

Literature and science--England--History--17th century.

Literature and science.

Literature and science--England--History--16th century.

Books and reading--England--History--16th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--England--History--17th century.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--16th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Science, Reading, & Renaissance Literature

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-210) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14830-8

1-280-47785-7

0-511-19527-3

0-511-19593-1

0-511-19386-6

0-511-31428-0

0-511-48401-1

0-511-19460-9

OCLC:

560222887