Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century

by Rosalind Powell

Perception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the period, drawing novel connections between treatments of perception as an embodied phenomenon and the creative methods employed by natural philosophers. Covering a wealth of literary, theological, and pedagogical texts that engage with astronomy, optics, ophthalmology, and the body, it argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526157047
• ISBN13: 9781526157041
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"