Light without heat: the observational mood from bacon to milton
Auteur :
Simon, David Carroll
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9781501723407
Date de publication :
15 juin 2018
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
907 g
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended...