Fictions of the cosmos : science and literature in the seventeenth century / Frédérique Aït-Touati ; translated by Susan Emanuel.

• Part 1. Cosmic imagination. Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusions: dreams and fictions -- part 2. Conjectural machines. Fontenelle: unveiling the spectacle of the world ; Machine and spectacle ; Order of the narrative, harmony of the world ; Fontenelle's visions ; Huygens: the theoretical voyage of The Cosmotheoros ; Hypotheses, conjectures, fictions ; Architectonics of the narrative ; Conclusions: hypotheses and narratives -- part 3. Observing monsters. Robert Hooke: "the armed eye" ; Micrographia ; From enargeia to evidence ; Hooke the astronomer ; Poetics of proof ; Instruments and images ; Margaret Cavendish: the battle of instruments ; "A high heel to a short leg" ; A teratology of knowledge ; The empire of fiction.

Ämnesord

Kosmologi i litteraturen  (sao)

Litteratur och vetenskap  (sao)

Cosmology in literature.  (LCSH)

Literature and science.  (LCSH)

Cosmology  -- History. (LCSH)

European literature  -- 17th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Kosmologi  -- historia (sao)

Europeisk litteratur  -- historia -- 1600-talet (sao)

Cosmology in literature  (LCSH)

Literature and science  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PN56.C68 (LCC)

809.9336 (DDC)

809/.9336 (DDC)