9781315549736 (electronic bk.)

1315549735 (electronic bk.)

9781409420422 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1409420426 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Intersections and cross-fertilization / Judy A. Hayden.

Part 1: Inquiry and Fact: Directing the Course of Knowledge: Inquiries, heads and directions: orienting early modern travel . Daniel Carey ; Forming knowledge: natural philosophy and English travel writing / Julia Schleck ; Geography and authority in the Royal Society's instructions for travelers / Jason H. Pearl.

Part 2: New Science, New Worlds: Traditions of the monstrous in William Dampier's New Holland / Geraldine Barnes ; Writing 'science fiction' in the shadow of war: bodily transgressions in Cavendish's Blazing World / Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker ; 'As far as a woman's reasoning may go': Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, and the new science / Judy A. Hayden ; Roger Phequewell, colonial man of science: re-reading imperial fantasy in Merryland / Marcia Nichols.

Part 3: Charting Knowledge, Mapping Encounters: Telescopic voyages: Galileo and the invention of lunar cartography / Howard Marchitello. Defoe the geographer: redefining the wonderful in A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain / Jesse Edwards.

Part 4 The Curiosity of Travel: Spectating science in the early modern collection / Barbara M. Benedict.

Selected works cited

Index.

Travelers' writings > History and criticism.

Taylor & Francis.