The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science.

Intro -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Notes -- Part I: Theorizing Early Modern Science and Literature -- The Grounds of Literature and Science: Margaret Cavendish's Creature Manifesto -- Outline Placeholder -- One or Several Disciplines? -- The Grounds of Literature and Science -- The Creature Manifesto -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 'Deductions from Metaphors': Figurative Truth, Poetical Language, and Early Modern Science -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point (Or: How the Imagination Was Used to Domesticate the Exotic) -- Introduction: Arendt's Escape -- Galileo's Sail to Alexandretta -- Kepler's Journey to the Moon -- Hooke and Newton's Voyage to the Center of the Earth -- Novelty and Imagination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Francis Bacon's Literary-Scientific Utopia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Reading Matter -- John Donne and the New Science -- Notes -- Bibliography -- God's Game of Hide-and-Seek: Bacon and Allegory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Crafting Early Modern Readers: Galileo and His Interlocutors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Milton, the Poetics of Matter, and  the Sciences of Reading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Reading Literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the Book of Nature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Communicating Medical Recipes: Robert Boyle's Genre and Rhetorical Strategies for Print -- Early Modern Recipe Collections: A Survey of the Genre and Related Genres -- Genre Conventions: Recipes Versus Experimental Essays -- 'Printed, but Not Published': The Politics of Vernacular Print -- Boyle's Rhetorical Strategies for Publicly Communicating Recipes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III: Pre-disciplinary Knowledges.

The Orphic Physics of Early Modern Eloquence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Hurricanes, Tempests, and the Meteorological Globe -- Literary Hurricanes: Nashe, Heywood, Shakespeare -- The Sea-Venture in 1609 -- The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 -- St Kitts in 1638 -- The Great Storm of 1703 -- Conclusions: Classical Humanism, Native Weather-Lore, and Early Modern Science -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Milton, Leibniz, and the Measure of Motion -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Bibliography -- No Joyful Voices: The Silence of the Urns in Browne's Hydriotaphia and Contemporary Archaeology -- The Silence of the Urns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Robert Boyle's 'Accidents of an Ague' and Its Precursors -- Historia morbi and the Personal Narrative -- 'My Anatomy of Myself': Donne's Devotions -- 'No Unpleasant Prospect': Boyle's Meditations and the Physics of Reflection -- How Boyle Read His Donne -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Poetico-Mathematical Women and  The Ladies' Diary -- The Ladies' Diary: Patterning and Genre -- The Rational Aesthetics of The Ladies' Diary -- No Stranger to Mathematics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Curiosity and the Occult: The Ambiguities of Science in Eighteenth-Century British Literature -- Introduction: Science and Curiosity -- The Royal Society: Curious Men and the Legitimization of Science -- Royal Society Oddities: Human Curiosities and the Illegitimacy of Science -- Fringe Science: Magic, the Occult and Trickery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV: Modalities -- Medical Discourses of Virginity and the Bed-­Trick in Shakespearean Drama -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 'Angry Mab with Blisters Plague': The Pre-­Modern Science of Contagion in Romeo and Juliet -- With Blisters Plague -- So Fearful Were They of Infection -- Break to New Mutiny -- Death-Marked -- Poor Living Corse, Closed in a Dead Man's Tomb!.

Baleful Weeds and Precious-Juiced Flowers -- Full Soon the Canker Death Eats Up That Plant -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Poetic Science: Wonder and the Seas of Cognition in Bacon and Pericles -- The Art of Knowing in Early Modern Culture -- Bacon and the Liquid Tides of Thought -- Pericles's Cognitive Laboratory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Mythography of Water: Hydraulic Engineering and the Imagination -- Water Engines and the Imagination -- Reimagining the Fenlands -- Machines for Raising Water -- Writing the Hydraulic Imagination: Dymock, Blith and Bate -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Hybrid Philosophers: Cavendish's Reading of Hooke's Micrographia -- Introduction -- The Justification of the Microscope -- The Naturalism of Micrographia -- Hooke's Insects as Emblems of His Approach to Nature -- Cavendish's Animals -- Rethinking the Louse -- Artless Reason or Reasoned Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Making Worlds: Invention and Fiction in Bacon and Cavendish -- Reinventing Invention: Bacon Versus Cavendish -- A World of One's Own -- Worlds of Ideas, Worlds of Atoms, Worlds of Lights -- Fact and Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Topical Bibliography and Suggested Further Readings -- Christopher L. Morrow -- Bacon -- Boyle -- Browne -- Cavendish -- Cosmology -- Donne -- Engineering/Technology/Machines -- Galileo -- Hooke -- Disciplinarity -- Literature and Science -- Mathematics -- Medicine -- Meteorology -- Physics -- Religion and Science -- Foreign Language -- Index.

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