Book ID: CBB001510030

“Paradise Lost” and the Cosmological Revolution (2014)

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Danielson, Dennis Richard (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xxiii + 220 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are 'world[s] / Of destined habitation'. Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science.

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Authors & Contributors
Graney, Christopher M.
Fauber, J. S.
Lipking, Lawrence
Zampieri, Luca
Turatto, Massimo
Torrini, Maurizio
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Copernicanism
Science and religion
Physics
Mathematics
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
20th century
19th century
Places
Europe
Italy
England
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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