Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England, Preston, Claire (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Professor of Renaissance Literature, Queen Mary University of London)

Автор: Funkenstein Amos
Название: Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Second Edition
ISBN: 0691181357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691181356
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Описание: Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein's influential analysis of the seventeenth century's "unprecedented fusion" of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.

Автор: Sharpe
Название: Crime in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 0521089476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521089470
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Описание: The history of crime is an exciting field, forming one aspect of a much wider increase in interest in social history as a whole. This book, based on a detailed study of court records in Essex between 1620 and 1680 combines a detailed study of fluctuations in crime and punishment in a seventeenth-century English county with an analysis of the social processes which lay behind prosecution.

Автор: Harvey, P.D.A.
Название: Manors and Maps in Rural England, from the Tenth Century to the Seventeenth
ISBN: 140940241X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409402411
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Описание: P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings together both these strands. It first looks at the English countryside from the 10th century to the 15th, investigating problems in particular documents, in the village community and in underlying long-term changes.

How landlords drew profits from their property in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, how and why there followed changes in the way landed estates were run and in the written records they produced, what new light their personal seals can throw on medieval peasants, are all among the topics discussed, while the local management of large estates and the development of the peasant land market are themes that recur throughout. There follow essays on the way maps were brought into the management of landed estates in the 16th and 17th centuries, starting with the introduction of consistent scale into mapping, a new concept crucially important in the general history of topographical maps. The collection closes by looking at some of the traps that both documents and maps set for the historian of the English countryside.

Автор: Schlosberg, David (professor Of Environmental Politics And Director, Professor Of Environmental Politics And Director, Sydney Environment Institute, U
Название: Poetics of scientific investigation in seventeenth-century england
ISBN: 019885403X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198854036
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Описание: Generations examines how the English Reformation was shaped by the generations that experienced, witnessed, and participated in it. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, it highlights the vital part played by families bound by blood and by faith in the religious revolution that stretched across the 16th and 17th centuries.

Автор: Preston Claire
Название: The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 0198704801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198704805
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Описание: 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 remarkableseventeenth-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.

Автор: Gibbons Daniel R.
Название: Conflicts of Devotion: Liturgical Poetics in Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 0268101345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268101343
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Описание: Who will mourn with me? Who will break bread with me? Who is my neighbor? In the wake of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, such questions called for a new approach to the communal religious rituals and verses that shaped and commemorated many of the brightest and darkest moments of English life. In England, new forms of religious writing emerged out of a deeply fractured spiritual community. Conflicts of Devotion reshapes our understanding of the role that poetry played in the re-formation of English community, and shows us that understanding both the poetics of liturgy and the liturgical character of poetry is essential to comprehending the deep shifts in English spiritual attitudes and practices that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The liturgical, communitarian perspective of Conflicts of Devotion sheds new light on neglected texts and deepens our understanding of how major writers such as Edmund Spenser, Robert Southwell, and John Donne struggled to write their way out of the spiritual and social crises of the age of the Reformation. It also sheds new light on the roles that poetry may play in negotiating—and even overcoming—religious conflict. Attention to liturgical poetics allows us to see the broad spectrum of ways in which English poets forged new forms of spiritual community out of the very language of theological division. This book will be of great interest to teachers and students of early modern poetry and of the various fields related to reformation studies: history, politics, and theology.Conflicts of Devotion is exceptionally well-written and is subtly and persuasively argued, advancing scholarship in such important ways as to change our ways of thinking about the major poets of this period. It will have special value to graduate students and young academics looking for an approach to their own writing.” —Gerard Wegemer, University of Dallas

Автор: Innocenzi, Plinio
Название: Innovators behind Leonardo
ISBN: 3319904485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319904481
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Описание: This engaging book places Leonardo da Vinci`s scientific achievements within the wider context of the rapid development that occurred during the Renaissance.

Автор: Stephens
Название: The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed
ISBN: 1138110345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138110342
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Описание: In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King's customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales as part of a drive to maximize the Crown's income from customs duties (on which it relied for much of its revenue). Starting at Bristol, Culliford eventually completed this daunting task in Cornwall over two years later in the spring of 1684. His report on each of the ports he inspected (the primary source for this book) revealed widespread smuggling and fraud in the context of a customs service both lacking in efficiency and riddled with corruption. The book documents the varied frauds and wide-ranging abuses uncovered and their facilitation by customs officers only too ready to collude with smugglers, dishonest merchants and seamen and to accept bribes to ignore tax evasion. It describes, too, Culliford's assessment of the administrative practices of each port inspected and his judgment on the levels of probity and efficiency of individual officers, detailing his recommendations for procedural improvements and the treatment of the corrupt and incompetent and, incidentally, of those suspected of political and religious dissent. Additionally, the book presents a body of statistical data on the customs revenue actually collected at individual ports in the 1670s and 1680s and surveys the extent and nature of the maritime trade of the ports Culliford examined. It thus not only throws light on the history of the customs service, but provides a rare insight into the interactions of economic, social and political issues in the later seventeenth century, and makes a valuable contribution to the particular histories of the ports and maritime districts visited by this energetic and tenacious investigator.

Автор: William B. Stephens
Название: The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed: William Culliford`s Investigation of the Western Ports, 1682-84
ISBN: 1409438376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409438373
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Описание: In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King`s customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales. This book documents the varied frauds and wide-ranging abuses he uncovered.

Автор: Chapman, Allan
Название: England`s Leonardo
ISBN: 0367393557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367393557
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All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect of distinction and a surveyor for the City of London after the Great Fire.

England's Leonardo is a biography of Hooke covering all aspects of his work, from his early life on the Isle of Wight through his time at Oxford University, where he became part of a group who would form the original Fellowship of the Royal Society. The author adopts a novel approach at this stage, dividing the book by chapter according to the fields of research-Physiology, Engineering, Microscopy, Astronomy, Geology, and Optics-in which Hooke applied himself. The book concludes with a chapter considering the legacy of Hooke and his impact on science.

Автор: Chapman, Allan
Название: England`s Leonardo
ISBN: 0750309873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780750309875
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Автор: Hirst
Название: Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 0521100305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521100304
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This volume, first published in 2000, focuses on the relationship between writing and public concerns in seventeenth-century England before, during and after the civil wars and revolution of the mid-century. The distinguished list of contributors represent a variety of disciplines - political scientists, social and political historians and literary critics.