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BL
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711492
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b533681
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Poétiques du discours cosmologique au XVIIe siècle.English
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Aït-Touati, Frédérique,1977-
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Fictions of the cosmos : : science and literature in the seventeenth century /\ Frédérique Aït-Touati ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2011, ©2011.
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ix, 261 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0226011224 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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: 9780226011226 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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| Notes
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Translated from the French.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Part 1. Cosmic imagination. Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusions: dreams and fictions -- part 2. Conjectural machines. Fontenelle: unveiling the spectacle of the world ; Machine and spectacle ; Order of the narrative, harmony of the world ; Fontenelle's visions ; Huygens: the theoretical voyage of The Cosmotheoros ; Hypotheses, conjectures, fictions ; Architectonics of the narrative ; Conclusions: hypotheses and narratives -- part 3. Observing monsters. Robert Hooke: "the armed eye" ; Micrographia ; From enargeia to evidence ; Hooke the astronomer ; Poetics of proof ; Instruments and images ; Margaret Cavendish: the battle of instruments ; "A high heel to a short leg" ; A teratology of knowledge ; The empire of fiction.
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Cosmology in literature.
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Cosmology-- History.
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European literature-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
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Literature and science.
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.9336
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PN56.C68A5813 2011
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| Added Entry
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Emanuel, Susan
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