Literature and science in the nineteenth century :: an anthology /

This anthology brings together a generous selection of scientific and literary material to explore the exchanges and interactions between them. It shows how scientists and creative writers alike fed from a common imagination in their language, style, metaphors and imagery. It includes writing by Mic...

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Weitere Verfasser: Otis, Laura, 1961-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Zusammenfassung:This anthology brings together a generous selection of scientific and literary material to explore the exchanges and interactions between them. It shows how scientists and creative writers alike fed from a common imagination in their language, style, metaphors and imagery. It includes writing by Michael Faraday, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many others. - ;'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.' John Ty.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xlii, 575 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxviii).
ISBN:9780191587702
0191587702
1280680148
9781280680144

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