The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

ISBN: 9780198704805 出版年：2016 页码：310 Preston, Claire Oxford University Press

This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkableseventeenth-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.