Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England

by Mary Thomas Crane

The rise of modern science stirred up a mix of unease and exhilaration that profoundly influenced early modern English literature.

During the scientific revolution, the dominant Aristotelian picture of nature, which cohered closely with common sense and ordinary perceptual experience, was completely overthrown. Although we now take for granted the ideas that the earth revolves around the sun and that seemingly solid matter is composed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421415313
• ISBN13: 9781421415314
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher