Science, literature, and rhetoric in early modern England / edited by Juliet Cummins and David Burchell.

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

fashioned image of poetry or the regular instruction of philosophy?": truth, utility, and the natural sciences in early modern England / Peter Harrison -- Mapping regeneration in The winter's tale / Anne Sutherland -- "A plain blunt man": hobbes, science, and rhetoric revisited / David Burchell -- Reformed catechism and scientific method in Milton's Of education and paradise lost / rAngelica Duran -- Rewriting the revolution: Milton, Bacon, and the Royal Society rhetoricians / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- A philosophical duchess: understanding Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society / Peter Dear -- Literary responses to Robert Boyle's natural philosophy / Peter Anstey -- Milton's chaos in Pope's London / Sophie Gee -- Global analogies: cosmology, geosymmetry, and skepticism in some works of Aphra Behn / rRobert Markley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-231) and index.