Newton Demands the Muse (eBook)

Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets

Marjorie Hope Nicolson (Autor)

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2015
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7822-2 (ISBN)

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In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet of a great advance in scientific thought.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aether (classical element) • Aldous Huxley • Alexander Pope • Alhazen • Allegory • Analogy • An Essay on Criticism • An Island in the Moon • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful • Aristotle • Astrology • Astronomer • Astronomy • astro-theology • Atomism • Benjamin Haydon • Boyle lectures • Calculation • caliban • Cambridge Platonists • Clime • Descriptive Catalogue (1809) • Digression • Discourses (Meher Baba) • Dunce • Elizabeth Carter • Empiricism • Enitharmon • Epicureanism • Epithet • E. T. Whittaker • Experimental Philosophy • explication • Figure of Speech • First principle • Francesco Algarotti • Francis Fawkes • General Scholium • Giambattista Della Porta • Golden mean (philosophy) • Henry More • hypothesis • Ibid (short story) • Illustration • Inferno (Dante) • John Donne • Jonathan Swift • Laputa • Leon Battista Alberti • Lewis Carroll • Life and Letters • Literature • Logan Pearsall Smith • Lucretius • Luminiferous aether • macrocosm and microcosm • Magnificence (history of ideas) • Neoplatonism • Newtonianism • Newton's law of universal gravitation • Nicholas Saunderson • Omnipresence • Omniscience • On the Universe • opticks • Philosopher • philosophical poets • Philosophy • Physical law • Plotinus • Poetaster • Poetry • Potentiality and actuality • prince hal • Pythagoreanism • Religion • Richard Jago • Richard Savage (poet) • ridicule • Romanticism • Samson Agonistes • Sancho Panza • Satire • Science • scientific theory • Scientist • Sophist • Sophocles • The Book of Los • The dunciad • theory • Theory of Forms • The Three Philosophers • The Various • Thought • Timaeus (dialogue) • treatise • truism • urizen • Vitruvius
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7822-5 / 1400878225
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7822-2 / 9781400878222