Title The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England / Claire Preston

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) Summary 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 remarkable 17th-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 14, 2015) Subject Technical writing -- History -- 17th century Didactic literature -- History and criticism Science in literature -- History -- 17th century Didactic literature Science in literature Technical writing Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191780134 0191780138

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