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02659aam a2200397 i 4500 001 C15665347D5211E1A6C2838D6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120403010220 008 110203t20112011ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2011004410 020 $a 0226011224 (cloth : alkaline paper) 020 $a 9780226011226 (cloth : alkaline paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)701330477 040 $a ICU/DLC $e rda $c DLC $d SILO $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d BWX $d SUC $d COO $d CDX $d PUL $d STF $d BDX $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56.C68 $b A5813 2011 082 00 $a 809/.9336 $2 22 100 1 $a AiÌt-Touati, FreÌdeÌrique, $d 1977- $e author. 240 10 $a PoeÌtiques du discours cosmologique au XVIIe sieÌcle. $l English 245 1 $a Fictions of the cosmos : $b science and literature in the seventeenth century / $c FreÌdeÌrique AiÌt-Touati ; translated by Susan Emanuel. 260 $a Chicago : $b University of Chicago Press, $c 2011, ©2011. 300 $a ix, 261 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 500 $a Translated from the French. 505 0 $a Part 1. Cosmic imagination. Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusions: dreams and fictions -- part 2. Conjectural machines. Fontenelle: unveiling the spectacle of the world ; Machine and spectacle ; Order of the narrative, harmony of the world ; Fontenelle's visions ; Huygens: the theoretical voyage of The Cosmotheoros ; Hypotheses, conjectures, fictions ; Architectonics of the narrative ; Conclusions: hypotheses and narratives -- part 3. Observing monsters. Robert Hooke: "the armed eye" ; Micrographia ; From enargeia to evidence ; Hooke the astronomer ; Poetics of proof ; Instruments and images ; Margaret Cavendish: the battle of instruments ; "A high heel to a short leg" ; A teratology of knowledge ; The empire of fiction. 546 $a Translated from the French. 650 0 $a Cosmology in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and science. 650 0 $a Cosmology $x History. 650 0 $a European literature $y 17th century $x History and criticism. 700 1 $a Emanuel, Susan, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180109013604.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825035753.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C15665347D5211E1A6C2838D6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search