Fictions of the Cosmos : Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0226011224
ISBN-13
9780226011226
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 15th, 2011
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
514 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 23.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800History of science
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By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide.
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