The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish : Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution.
Title:
The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish : Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution.
Author:
Sarasohn, Lisa T.
ISBN:
9780801898631
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Series:
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science ; v.128
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender, Nature, and Natural Philosophy -- One: A Wonderful Natural Philosopher -- Two: Cavendish's Early Atomism -- Three: The Life of Matter -- Four: The Imaginative Universe of Natures Pictures -- Five: The Politics of Matter -- Six: The Challenge of Immaterial Matter -- Seven: Cavendish against the Experimenters -- Eight: Material Regenerations -- Conclusion: Does Cavendish Matter? -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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