Newton's darkness: two dramatic views
by ebrary, Inc, Djerassi, Carl, Djerassi, Carl, Pinner, David
"What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed ... like other mortals?" asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. "We need unsullied heroes!" But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was…
Introduction : atmospheres of understanding : scientific emotion and literary criticism -- "Nonchalance" and the making of knowledge : Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne -- The angle of thought : Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the scientific imagination -- The microscope m…
"Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intelle…
"Physico-theology is a term for the innovative currents of thought in England and Europe that emphasized the religious value of the new sciences and philosophies after 1650. This term is central to the relations between science and religion during the intellectual transition fro…
"The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. Alexander Wragge-Morl…