Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England

Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England

Swann, Elizabeth L.; Mukherji, Subha

Springer International Publishing AG

06/2024

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9783031517990

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Chapter 1- Poesy and Scientia: Matters of Fancy.- Part I -The Poetics of Alchemy: Making, Metaphor, Transmutation.- Chapter 2 - 'Walking, talking minerals': Men and Metals in King Lear and Bussy d'Ambois.- Chapter 3 - The Imperfect Circle: Hester Pulter's Alchemical Forms.- Chapter 4 - From Philosopher's Stone to Phosphorus: Robert Boyle's Illuminating Experiments. -Part II -Forms of Fortune: Prognostication, Communication, Mercantilism.- Chapter 5 - Love Letters to Fortune: Queen Elizabeth's Lottery of 1567-69.- Chapter 6 - 'The Sunne and Moone of Knowledge'? Mathematical Astrology in Rollo, Duke of Normandy.- Chapter 7 - The Plain Style, Plane Chart Navigation, and the Paradox of Disinterestedness.- Chapter 8 - Commerce, Credit, and Transaction: The Rhetorical Origins of Big Science.- Part III - Reading Nature and Scripture: Interpretation, Speculation, Imagination.- Chapter 9 - Monsignore Agucchi Reads a Letter: Sunspots, Secrecy, and Scientia in the Early Seventeenth Century.- Chapter 10 - The Jobean Apophatic and the Symphonic Unknowability of the World.- Chapter 11- 'Manure thyself': The Poetics of Fertilisation in Early Modern English Religious Writing.- Chapter 12 - 'Instruments' of the Body: The Conflicting Corporeal Hermeneutics of Francis Bacon's Medical Art.- Chapter 13 - 'Pursued Thoughts': Imagination, Raving and Meditation in the Early Boyle.- Chapter 14- Weaving a Web of Light: Science's Poetics.















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Shakespeare;Humanism;Literature and Cultural Studies;Science and Literature;British and Irish Literature;Early Modern Period;Literature, Science and Medicine Studies