Literature and Science as Modes of Expression

On the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Boston Studies series in 1985, Cohen, Elkana, and Wartofsky wrote in another preface such as this that the time had come for establishing institutions supporting a vision to which the series had been devoted since its inception, namely that of a more br...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Amrine, F.R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Discourses of the Island
  • Discourses of the Nerve
  • Experiment and Fiction
  • Hypotyposes
  • The Mythological Transformations of Renaissance Science: Physical Allegory and the Crisis of Alchemical Narrative
  • “What Ever Happened to Ethics?”
  • Nature as Construct
  • “Observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story”: Moral Insanity and Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’
  • Conceptualizing Technology in Literary Terms: Some American Examples
  • Literature and the Authority of Technology
  • “A Place to Step Further”: Jack Spicer’s Quantum Poetics
  • Index of Names