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Howard Marchitello; Evelyn Tribble
Palgrave Macmillan UK
The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science
Curiosity and the Occult: The Ambiguities of Science in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Authors

Barbara M. Benedict

ARI Id

1664130227816_437556

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Not Available Free

Pages

351-373

DOI

10.1057/978-1-137-46361-6_17

Chapter URL

https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-46361-6_17

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Front Matter
i-xlvi
Front Matter
1-1
The Grounds of Literature and Science: Margaret Cavendish’s Creature Manifesto
Liza Blake
3-26
‘Deductions from Metaphors’: Figurative Truth, Poetical Language, and Early Modern Science
Wendy Beth Hyman
27-48
Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point (Or: How the Imagination Was Used to Domesticate the Exotic)
Ofer Gal
49-71
Francis Bacon’s Literary-Scientific Utopia
Angus Fletcher
73-91
Front Matter
93-93
John Donne and the New Science
Mary Thomas Crane
95-114
God’s Game of Hide-and-Seek: Bacon and Allegory
Kristen Poole
115-138
Crafting Early Modern Readers: Galileo and His Interlocutors
Crystal Hall
139-158
Milton, the Poetics of Matter, and the Sciences of Reading
Elizabeth Spiller
159-177
Reading Literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the Book of Nature
James J. Bono
179-207
Communicating Medical Recipes: Robert Boyle’s Genre and Rhetorical Strategies for Print
Michelle DiMeo
209-228
Front Matter
229-229
The Orphic Physics of Early Modern Eloquence
Jenny C. Mann
231-256
Hurricanes, Tempests, and the Meteorological Globe
Steve Mentz
257-276
Milton, Leibniz, and the Measure of Motion
Shankar Raman
277-293
No Joyful Voices: The Silence of the Urns in Browne’s Hydriotaphia and Contemporary Archaeology
Philip Schwyzer
295-309
Robert Boyle’s ‘Accidents of an Ague’ and Its Precursors
Claire Preston
311-335
Poetico-Mathematical Women and The Ladies’ Diary
Jacqueline D. Wernimont
337-350
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