Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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- Science, Reading, and Renaissance LiteratureThe Art of Making Knowledge, 1580–1670, pp. x - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004