Possible Knowledge The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science 9781512823363, 9781512823356

Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science 9781512823363

Exploring the imaginative habits of thought of early modern thinkers—including Shakespeare, Milton, Sidney, Bacon, Spens

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Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science 9781512823363, 9781512823356, 1512823368

The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowl

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Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800 9780822393580

Essays illuminate the extraordinarily varied and dynamic intellectual developments underway in India and Tibet during th

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e Government the science of the possible

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The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan 9780226252063

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself fro

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Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan 9781912961016

This volume provides a valuable selection of new research on the subject of the generation, dissemination and applicatio

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Forms of Faith : Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England [1 ed.] 9781526107169, 9780719096815

This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a

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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England 9780226583525

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from

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Scepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning 9781501731730

"The problem of philosophical scepticism is not so much what to say about the view itself (there being a consensus

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Robert Burton’s Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge 9780271085500

Published in five editions between 1621 and 1651, The Anatomy of Melancholy marks a unique moment in the development of

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