The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-century England

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The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-century England is written by Claire Preston and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198704801 (ISBN 10) and 9780198704805 (ISBN 13).

This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkable 17th-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.