Fallen Languages
Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2019
288 pages
978-1-5017-4462-4 (ISBN)
Description
According to Robert Markley, historians and philosophers of science who link the rise of science to the rise of modern, objective forms of writing are interpreting the works of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries far too narrowly. Focusing on the crises of representation in the discourse of physico-theology in English natural philosophy from 1660 to 1740, Markley demonstrates the crucial role played by theology in the development of modern science. -- Cornell University Press
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
3 b&w illustrations
3 b&w illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-4462-4 (9781501744624)
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Cornell University Press
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Person
Robert Markley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. -- Cornell University Press
Content
- Cover
- FALLEN LANGUAGES
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Physico-Theology: Dialogics, History, Theory
- 1 "A Close (though Mystick) Connection": Boyle's Defense of the Bible
- 2 "Babel revers'd": Real Characters, Philosophical Languages, and Idealizations of Order
- 3 "Those Fabulous Chaldeans,: Boyle and the Crisis of Baconianism
- 4 "Ye true & real temple of God": Mathematics, History, and the Narrative Structures of Newton's Natural Philosophy
- 5 "The interposition of Omniscience": History, Method, and Aesthetics in Early Eighteenth-Century Newtonianism
- 6 Boyle "Epitomiz' d": The Reinscription of Science in Early Eighteenth-Century England
- Epilogue
- Index
