Brings together key works in early modern science and literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish) to explore how two cultures and...
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Brings together key works in early modern science and literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish) to explore how two cultures and disciplines, science and literature, developed through a shared aesthetic of knowledge Introduction : making early modern science and literature -- 1. Model worlds : Philip Sidney, William Gilbert, and the experiment of worldmaking -- 2. From embryology to parthenogenesis : the birth of the writer in Edmund Spenser and William Harvey -- 3. Reading through Galileo's telescope : Johannes Kepler's dream for reading knowledge -- 4. Books written of the wonders of these glasses : Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, and Margaret Cavendish's theory of reading -- Afterword : fiction and the Sokal hoax.
