Light without Heat : : The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton / / David Carroll Simon.
In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual va...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index