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The natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish : reason and fancy during the scientific revolution
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Title
The natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish : reason and fancy during the scientific revolution / Lisa T. Sarasohn.
ISBN
9780801894435 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801894433 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xi, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 11, 2010
Series
The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Gender, nature, and natural philosophy
A wonderful natural philosopher
Cavendish's early atomism
The life of matter
Other worlds and other selves : the imaginative world of natures pictures
The politics of matter
The matter with immaterial matter
Cavendish against the experimenters
Material regenerations
Conclusion : does Cavendish matter?
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