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The Arts of 17th-Century Science: Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture

The Arts of 17th-Century Science: Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1138256439
ISBN13: 9781138256439
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 11 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.59
Language: English
Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural world, but entered into competition with them. It is this complex process of competition and negotiation concerning ways of seeing the natural world that is charted by the essays in this book. The collection traces the many overlaps between 'literary' and 'scientific' discourses as writers in this period attempted both to understand imaginatively and empirically the workings of the natural world, and shows that a discrete separation between such discourses and spheres is untenable.

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