Author: Claire Preston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198704801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkable 17th-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.