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Swift and Science de G. Lynall

Swift and Science

Autor G. Lynall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2012
It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349344734
ISBN-10: 1349344737
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: XI, 209 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1st edition 2012
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Altitudes of Authority Meditations and Mechanisms: Swift and Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects Sinking the 'Spider's Cittadel': The Battel of the Books and Thomas Burnet's 'Philosophical Romance' of the Earth Newtonian Battels with Rising Stars and Wheeling Moons Laputian Newtons: Science, the Wood's Halfpence Affair and Gulliver's Travels Socinians and Queens: Samuel Clarke and 'Directions for a Birthday Song' Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Notă biografică

GREGORY LYNALL is lecturer in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published widely on the relationship between literature, science and alchemy in the long eighteenth century, and worked as a research assistant on A Tale of a Tub and Other Works, ed. Marcus Walsh, for the Cambridge Edition of Jonathan Swift.