Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton

Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton /

"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 cultu...

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Main Author: Simon, David Carroll (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626 > Influence.
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.
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Table of 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.

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