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Defoe and the New Sciences

Defoe and the New Sciences

Vickers, Ilse
Erskine-Hill, Howard
Ilse, Vickers

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature a, Book 32

Literary CriticismSports General

ISBN10: 0521024366
ISBN13: 9780521024365
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 9 2006
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal observation and experience, or his belief in man's God-given duty to explore and make productive use of nature. In this first major study of Bacon's legacy to Defoe, Ilse Vickers shows that the ideas and concepts of Baconian science were a major influence on Defoe's thinking and writing. She outlines the intellectual principles behind Baconian science, and considers a wide range of Defoe's work, from the point of view of his familiarity with the ideals of experimental philosophy.

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