Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580 1670

by Elizabeth Spiller

Book Overview

Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521037689
• ISBN13: 9780521037686
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"