The Curious Eye

The Curious Eye is a book about the impact of optical technologies, including the microscope, the telescope, and the camera obscura, on seventeenth century English thought. Introduction; 1 Poetry as Optical Technology; 2 Language Reform and the Lens of Simile in Experimentalist Texts; 3 Envisioning Empire in Bacon, Hooke, and Cavendish; 4 The Physics of Vision in Kepler, Descartes, and Milton; 5 Perspective as a Conceptual Tool in Milton and Newton; 6 The Optics of Virtue in Boyle, Cowley, and Behn; Postscript: Prosthetic and Embodied Vision

An aparitie	20-02-20
Autor	Webster, Erin
Dimensiuni	234x156 mm
Editura	Oxford
Format	Hardback
ISBN	9780198850199
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	224