Donne and the Sidereus Nuncius: Astronomy, Method and Metaphor in 1611

John Donne’s poetry has long been famous for its metaphysical conceits, which powerfully register the impact of the “New Philosophy,” yet the question of how his work is implicated in the new forms of knowledge-making that exploded in the early seventeenth century has remained unanswered. “Donne and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, John Piers Russell
Other Authors: Harvey, Elizabeth D.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32002