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949315
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b703685
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Spiller, Elizabeth.
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| Title & Author
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Science, reading, and Renaissance literature : : the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670 /\ Elizabeth Spiller.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;; 45
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1 online resource (xi, 214 pages) :: illustrations.
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0511193866
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: 9780511484018
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: 9786610477852
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0511193866
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0521830869
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Brings together key works in early modern science and literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish) to explore how two cultures and disciplines, science and literature, developed through a shared aesthetic of knowledge.
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Kepler, Johannes,1571-1630.
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Kepler, Johannes,1571-1630.
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Books and reading-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Books and reading-- England-- History-- 17th century.
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
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Literature and science-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Literature and science-- England-- History-- 17th century.
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Renaissance-- England.
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Science in literature.
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Books and reading.
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English literature-- Early modern.
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Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and science.
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Renaissance.
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Science in literature.
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Engels.
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Letterkunde.
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Renaissance.
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Wetenschappen.
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Great Britain, Intellectual life, 16th century.
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Great Britain, Intellectual life, 17th century.
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England.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/36
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| LC Classification
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PR438.S35S65 2004eb
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