The Curious Eye is a book about the impact of optical technologies, including the microscope, the telescope, and the camera obscura, on seventeenth century English thought.
The Curious Eye is a book about the impact of optical technologies, including the microscope, the telescope, and the camera obscura, on seventeenth century English thought.
Erin Webster is an Assistant Professor of English at William & Mary, where she teaches courses in early modern literature, including Milton, and on the intersection of literature and scientific thought.
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Introduction 1: Poetry as Optical Technology 2: Language Reform and the Lens of Simile in Experimentalist Texts 3: Envisioning Empire in Bacon, Hooke, and Cavendish 4: The Physics of Vision in Kepler, Descartes, and Milton 5: Perspective as a Conceptual Tool in Milton and Newton 6: The Optics of Virtue in Boyle, Cowley, and Behn Postscript: Prosthetic and Embodied Vision
Introduction 1: Poetry as Optical Technology 2: Language Reform and the Lens of Simile in Experimentalist Texts 3: Envisioning Empire in Bacon, Hooke, and Cavendish 4: The Physics of Vision in Kepler, Descartes, and Milton 5: Perspective as a Conceptual Tool in Milton and Newton 6: The Optics of Virtue in Boyle, Cowley, and Behn Postscript: Prosthetic and Embodied Vision
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