Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution (Hc)
Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution (Hc)
Author: Duran A
ISBN: 9780820703862
Edition: 1ST - 2006
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Angelica Duran Reveals the Way in Which Milton's Works Interacted With the Revolutionary Work of His Contemporaries in Science to Participate in the Dynamic "Advancement of Learning" of the Time Period. Bringing Together Primary Materials by Early Modern Scientists, Including Robert Boyle, William Gilbert, William Harvey, Isaac Newton, John Ray, and John Wilkins As Well As Educational Reformers Such As Samuel Hartlib and Henry Oldenburg, "The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution" Positions Milton's Literature As a Coequal Partner With the New Cosmological Theories, Mathematical Developments, Telescopes, and Scientific Tracts That so Thoroughly Affected Every Aspect of Recorded Life in Seventeenth Century England. Duran Shows, for Example, How New Developments in Ornithology Worked to Shape the Ladys Power in the Young Miltons Celebratory 'A Mask', How Mathematics Informed the Sexual Relationship of Adam and Eve in His Mature Epic Paradise Lost, and How Developments in Optics Tr
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