Weighing fire : European lives in eighteenth-century literature and science / Michael Rand Hoare.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Peter Lang : Oxford, 2022.Description: 1 volumes, xii, 679 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781789976144

Other title:

European lives in eighteenth-century literature and science

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Genre/Form:

Biographies.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Weighing fireDDC classification:

809.933 23 HOA

Contents:

Voltaire Lomonosov Algarotti Goethe Novalis Goethe Diderot Erasmus Darwin Lichtenberg Coleridge Ancients and Mods

Summary: "This work is Volume 1 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It comprises a series of some twenty biographies raisonées of literary figures known to have had fascination for, at times an obsession with, science. The linguistic base is broad, primarily French, German and English, but with excursions into Italian, Spanish and Russian. Alongside outstanding individuals, the work chronicles the intellectual movements Naturphilosophie, Naturalism, Positivism, etc., which literature gave rise to through its interaction with science"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Voltaire
Lomonosov
Algarotti
Goethe
Novalis
Goethe
Diderot
Erasmus
Darwin
Lichtenberg
Coleridge
Ancients and Mods

"This work is Volume 1 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It comprises a series of some twenty biographies raisonées of literary figures known to have had fascination for, at times an obsession with, science. The linguistic base is broad, primarily French, German and English, but with excursions into Italian, Spanish and Russian. Alongside outstanding individuals, the work chronicles the intellectual movements Naturphilosophie, Naturalism, Positivism, etc., which literature gave rise to through its interaction with science"--

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