Science and imagination / by Marjorie Nicolson.

[Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books, 1976.

ix, 238 pages ; 21 cm

Reprint of the 1962 ed. published by Great Seal Books, Ithaca, New York

The telescope and imagination.--The "new astronomy" and English imagination.--Kepler, the Somnium, and John Donne.--Milton and the telescope.--The scientific background of Swift's Voyage to Laputa, with N. M. Mohler.--The microscope and English imagination.

Includes bibliographic references and index