Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

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Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England is written by Juliet Cummins and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754657817 (ISBN 10) and 9780754657811 (ISBN 13).

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyzing the contributions of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the development of modern Western thought.