Titlebook: Swift and Science; The Satire, Politics Gregory Lynall Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012 biblio

清楚

,Sinking the ‘,’s Cittadel’: , and Thomas Burnet’s ‘Philosophical Romance’ of the Earth,e King’s Library (., p. 146). The . was written whilst Swift was working as Temple’s secretary at Moor Park, and its intellectual context is firmly grounded in the debates of the 1690s, with a substantial number of its specific satiric targets directly related to what became a very personal feud. To

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PACT

,Laputian Newtons: Science, the Wood’s Halfpence Affair and ,, knowledge, given the changes in European culture brought about by the so-called ‘scientific revolution’. The travelogue form, which parodically structures its narrative, had become increasingly influenced by empirical modes of observation during the seventeenth century, and reports of voyages and f

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使高興

Afterword,essa’s love for Cadenus is figured as a prism which refracts the incident light of the things she studies. However, while Newton had shown that the colours produced by the prism are not ‘.’ but ‘. and .’ of the natural white light, Vanessa’s lens of ‘Passion’ is ‘bend[ing]’ the world, producing a di

縱欲

勉強(qiáng)

Afterword,s makes a poke at Newtonian optics specifically). However, the elisions reveal Swift’s own (poetic) surrender to the exigencies of octosyllabic metre, somewhat undercutting the severity of this repudiatory glance at reductive structures.

IDEAS

ption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift‘s imagination.978-1-349-34473-4978-1-137-01696-6

陳腐的人

Newtonian , with Rising Stars and Wheeling Moons,. The first Boyle lectures were delivered from the pulpit of St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1692 by Richard Bentley, then chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester (Edward Stillingfleet), and soon-to-be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Blasphemy

phs and pragmatic theories of meaning.Provides introductory .Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the principal subject of this book, was one of the most profound and prolific thinkers and scientists to have come out of the United States. His pragmatic logic and scientific methodology largely represe