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Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery - From Copernicus to Flamsteed (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2090)
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Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery - From Copernicus to Flamsteed (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2090)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a
world system long held to be finite required for many in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs
and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this
did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in
astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of
the telescope, and Galileo's discoveries and descriptions of the
moon sparked intense debate in Early Modern literary discourse. The
essays in this collection demonstrate that this discourse not only
stimulated international discussion about lunar voyages and
otherworldly habitation, but it also developed a political context
in which these new discoveries and theories could correspond
metaphorically to New World exploration and colonization, to
socio-political unrest, and even to kingship and regicide.
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