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Light Without Heat: The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton

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Light Without Heat: The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton - Simon, David Carroll
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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...

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Light Without Heat: The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton 2018, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9781501723407

Hardcover