Science and imagination / by Marjorie Nicolson.

  • Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, 1894-1981.
Date:
1976
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

[Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books, 1976.

Physical description

ix, 238 pages ; 21 cm

Notes

Reprint of the 1962 ed. published by Great Seal Books, Ithaca, New York

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents

The telescope and imagination.--The "new astronomy" and English imagination.--Kepler, the Somnium, and John Donne.--Milton and the telescope.--The scientific background of Swift's Voyage to Laputa, with N. M. Mohler.--The microscope and English imagination.

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    History of Medicine
    ABQ.AA6-7
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ISBN

  • 0208016031