Milton and Science / / Kester Svendsen.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION The Major Problems
  • CHAPTER I. The Compendious Method of Natural Philosophy: Milton and the Encyclopedic Tradition
  • CHAPTER II. The Harmony of the Spheres: Milton’s World Picture
  • CHAPTER III. This Vast Sublunar Vault
  • CHAPTER IV. The Secret Powers of Stones and Plants
  • CHAPTER V. All the Beasts of the Earth: The Animal Kingdom in Milton
  • CHAPTER VI. The Structure and Surgery of the Human Body
  • CHAPTER VII. Precepts of Beneficence in Prose
  • CHAPTER VIII. Natural Philosophy and Paradise Lost
  • Notes
  • Index