Book ID: CBB001250411

Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century (2011)

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Aït-Touati, Frédérique (Author)
Emanuel, Susan (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: x + 261 pp.; bibl.; index; ill.
Language: English

Description Discusses writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others.


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Review Reiss, Timothy (2013) Review of "Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 158-159). unapi

Review DeSantis, Anthony J. (2012) Review of "Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century". HOPOS (pp. 387-390). unapi

Review Turner, Henry S. (2013) Review of "Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century". Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (pp. 331-334). unapi

Review Wolfe, Jessica (2014) Review of "Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century". Renaissance Quarterly (p. 746). unapi

Review Wernimont, Jacqueline (2014) Review of "Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 583-585). unapi

Essay Review Picciotto, Joanna (2014) Early Modern Facts and Fictions. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 178-186). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Laetitia Rimpau
Gorman, Cassandra
Shaheen, Jonathan L.
Lipking, Lawrence
Wilkins, Emma
Thell, Anne M.
Journals
Azimuth
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Seventeenth Century
Renaissance Quarterly
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
HOPOS
Publishers
Universitätsverlag Winter
Oxford University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
D.S. Brewer
Cornell University Press
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Science and literature
Natural philosophy
Astronomy
Cosmology
Philosophy
Matter theory
People
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Kepler, Johannes
Galilei, Galileo
Hooke, Robert
Godwin, Francis
Milton, John
Time Periods
17th century
Renaissance
16th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
Europe
England
Germany
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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