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The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science

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    Chapter 1 The Grounds of Literature and Science: Margaret Cavendish’s Creature Manifesto
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    Chapter 2 ‘Deductions from Metaphors’: Figurative Truth, Poetical Language, and Early Modern Science
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    Chapter 3 Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point (Or: How the Imagination Was Used to Domesticate the Exotic)
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    Chapter 4 Francis Bacon’s Literary-Scientific Utopia
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    Chapter 5 John Donne and the New Science
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    Chapter 6 God’s Game of Hide-and-Seek: Bacon and Allegory
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    Chapter 7 Crafting Early Modern Readers: Galileo and His Interlocutors
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    Chapter 8 Milton, the Poetics of Matter, and the Sciences of Reading
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    Chapter 9 Reading Literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the Book of Nature
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    Chapter 10 Communicating Medical Recipes: Robert Boyle’s Genre and Rhetorical Strategies for Print
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    Chapter 11 The Orphic Physics of Early Modern Eloquence
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    Chapter 12 Hurricanes, Tempests, and the Meteorological Globe
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    Chapter 13 Milton, Leibniz, and the Measure of Motion
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    Chapter 14 No Joyful Voices: The Silence of the Urns in Browne’s Hydriotaphia and Contemporary Archaeology
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    Chapter 15 Robert Boyle’s ‘Accidents of an Ague’ and Its Precursors
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    Chapter 16 Poetico-Mathematical Women and The Ladies’ Diary
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    Chapter 17 Curiosity and the Occult: The Ambiguities of Science in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
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    Chapter 18 Medical Discourses of Virginity and the Bed-Trick in Shakespearean Drama
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    Chapter 19 ‘Angry Mab with Blisters Plague’: The Pre-Modern Science of Contagion in Romeo and Juliet
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    Chapter 20 Poetic Science: Wonder and the Seas of Cognition in Bacon and Pericles
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    Chapter 21 A Mythography of Water: Hydraulic Engineering and the Imagination
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    Chapter 22 Hybrid Philosophers: Cavendish’s Reading of Hooke’s Micrographia
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    Chapter 23 Making Worlds: Invention and Fiction in Bacon and Cavendish
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    Chapter 24 Afterword
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Title
The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, January 2017
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-46361-6
ISBNs
978-1-137-46778-2, 978-1-137-46361-6
Editors

Howard Marchitello, Evelyn Tribble

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Country Count As %
Unknown 16 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 31%
Other 2 13%
Student > Master 2 13%
Professor 1 6%
Lecturer 1 6%
Other 2 13%
Unknown 3 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 7 44%
Environmental Science 1 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 6%
Social Sciences 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 4 25%