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

• VerfasserIn: Simon, David Carroll,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca ;, London : : Cornell University Press,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)

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.