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100 1 a| Aït-Touati, Frédérique,d| 1977-e| author.=| ^A1144068;

240 10 a| Poétiques du discours cosmologique au XVIIe siècle.l| English=| ^A1144392;

245 10 a| Fictions of the cosmos :b| science and literature in the seventeenth century /c| Frédérique Aït-Touati ; translated by Susan Emanuel.;

300 a| ix, 261 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Part 1. Cosmic imagination. Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusion: dreams and fictions -- part 2. Conjectural machines. Fontenelle: unveiling the spectacle of the world ; Machine and spectacle ; Order of the narrative, harmony of the world ; Fontenelle's visions ; Huygens: the theoretical voyage of The Cosmotheoros ; Hypotheses, conjectures, fictions ; Architectonics of the narrative ; Conclusion: hypotheses and narratives -- part 3. Observing monsters. Robert Hooke: "the armed eye" ; Micrographia ; From enargeia to evidence ; Hooke the astronomer ; Poetics of proof ; Conclusion: Instruments and images ; Margaret Cavendish: the battle of instruments ; "A high heel to a short leg" ; A teratology of knowledge ; The empire of fiction Conclusion.;

546 a| Translated from the French.;

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650 0 a| Literature and science.=| ^A16137;

650 0 a| Cosmologyx| History.=| ^A23663;

650 0 a| European literaturey| 17th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A244417;

700 1 a| Emanuel, Susane| translator.=| ^A1143489;

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Fictions of the cosmos : science and literature in the seventeenth century / Frédérique Aït-Touati ; translated by Susan Emanuel.

Author/creator	Aït-Touati, Frédérique, 1977- author.
Other author	Emanuel, Susan translator.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2011], ©2011.
Description	ix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Cosmology in literature. Literature and science. Cosmology--History. European literature--17th century. --History and criticism.

Uniform title	Poétiques du discours cosmologique au XVIIe siècle. English
Contents	Part 1. Cosmic imagination. Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusion: dreams and fictions -- part 2. Conjectural machines. Fontenelle: unveiling the spectacle of the world ; Machine and spectacle ; Order of the narrative, harmony of the world ; Fontenelle's visions ; Huygens: the theoretical voyage of The Cosmotheoros ; Hypotheses, conjectures, fictions ; Architectonics of the narrative ; Conclusion: hypotheses and narratives -- part 3. Observing monsters. Robert Hooke: "the armed eye" ; Micrographia ; From enargeia to evidence ; Hooke the astronomer ; Poetics of proof ; Conclusion: Instruments and images ; Margaret Cavendish: the battle of instruments ; "A high heel to a short leg" ; A teratology of knowledge ; The empire of fiction Conclusion.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language	Translated from the French.
LCCN	2011004410
ISBN	9780226011226 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN	0226011224 (cloth : alkaline paper)

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