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Author:

Simon, David Carroll, author.

Title:

Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton / David Carroll Simon.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 297 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Bacon, Francis,--1561-1626--Influence.
Bacon, Francis,--1561-1626.
Literature and science--England--History--17th century.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Observation (Scientific method)--England--History--17th century.
Philosophy of nature in literature.
Empiricism in literature.
England--Intellectual life--17th century.
Empiricism in literature.
English literature--Early modern.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life.
Literature and science.
Observation (Scientific method)
Philosophy of nature in literature.
England.
1500-1700
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-290) and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Atmospheres of understanding : scientific emotion and literary criticism -- "Nonchalance" and the making of knowledge : Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne -- The angle of thought : Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the scientific imagination -- The microscope made easy : Andrew Marvell with Henry Power -- The paradise without : John Milton in the garden -- Postscript.

Summary:

"Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century England"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1501723405
9781501723407

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1008759076

LCCN:

2017048069

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)