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Milton and the New Scientific Age - Poetry, Science, Fiction (Hardcover)
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Milton and the New Scientific Age - Poetry, Science, Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages
over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as
it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners
in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long
dominated work in both Milton and seventeenth-century studies, but
they have previously not included the relatively new and
revolutionary topic of early modern chemistry, physiology, and
medicine. Previously this subject was confined to the history of
science, with little if any attention to its literary development,
even though it prominently appears in John Milton's Paradise Lost,
which also includes early "science fiction" speculations on aliens
ignored by most readers. Both of these oversights are corrected in
this essay collection, while more traditional areas of research
have been updated. They include Milton's relationship both to Bacon
and the later or Royal Society Baconians, his views on astronomy,
and his "vitalist" views on biology and cosmology. In treating
these topics, our contributors are not mired in speculations about
whether or not Milton was on the cutting edge of early science or
science fiction, for, as nearly all of them show, the idea of a
"cutting edge" is deeply anachronistic at a time when most
scientists and scientific enthusiasts held both fully modern and
backward-looking beliefs. By treating these combinations
contextually, Milton's literary contributions to the "new science"
are significantly clarified along with his many contemporary
sources, all of which merit study in their own right.
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