Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740

Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740
ISBN-10
0801425883
ISBN-13
9780801425882
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Authors
Robert Markley, Assistant Professor of English Robert Markley

Description

Traces the importance of theology to the crisis of representation in English natural philosophy as documented by the writings of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries. Finds that the tension between observed experimental phenomena and established religious and political thought led them to devise innovative theories. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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