The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

by Claire Preston

Book Overview

How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their work. Inspired laymen were quick to borrow from the new philosophy and from practising scientists in order to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192867032
• ISBN13: 9780192867032
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 9.0"