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03111aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 0BD21D306B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150821s2015 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2015943219 020 $a 0198704801 020 $a 9780198704805 035 $a (OCoLC)936199583 040 $a NLE $b eng $e rda $c NLE $d OCLCO $d WLU $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d INU $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d ORU $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a T11 P74x 2015 100 1 $a Preston, Claire, $e author. 245 14 $a The poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England / $c Claire Preston. 246 3 $a Poetics of scientific investigation in 17th century England 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a ix, 293 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-272) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction--'A distemper of learning' : the languages of science -- Orlando Curioso : the lapsarian style of Thomas Browne -- Equivocal Boyle and the enamelled telescope -- 'A blessing in the wilderness' : fictions of polity and the place of science -- Dining out in the republic of letters : the rhetoric of scientific correspondence -- The counsel of herbs : scientific georgic. 520 $a "How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their work. Inspired laymen were quick to borrow from the new philosophy and from practising scientists in order to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Between them, scientists, natural historians, poets, dramatists, and essayists produced new, adjusted, or hybrid literary forms. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England examines those forms and that literary-scientific texture, as well as representations of the scientific--the laboratory, collaborative experimental retirement, and the canons of scientific conversation--and proposes that the writing of seventeenth-century science mirrors the intellectual and investigative processes of early-modern science itself"--Jacket. 650 0 $a Technical writing $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Didactic literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Science in literature $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Technical writing $z England $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Didactic literature, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z England $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a English prose literature $y Early modern, 1500-1700 $x History and criticism. 600 10 $a Browne, Thomas, $c Sir, $d 1605-1682 $x Literary style. 600 10 $a Boyle, Robert, $d 1627-1691 $x Literary style. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907010919.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0BD21D306B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search