Fictions of the Cosmos - Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Frederique Ait-Touati is a teaching fellow in French at St John's College at the University of Oxford. Susan Emanuel has translated many books from French! including The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity! by Guy G. Stroumsa! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Frederique A'It-Touati, Ait-touati, Frederique Ait-Touati, Frédérique Ait-Touati, Frederique/ Emanuel Ait-touati, Frdrique At-Touati
• Assisted by: Susan Emanuel (Translation), Emanuel Susan (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2011
• EAN: 9780226011226
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01122-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, History of Science, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800