The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment by Tita Chico (review)

Chico argues that because science requires literary representation, "the representation of early science persistently discloses its literary status—not merely in the tropological nature of scientific writing and practice, but also through the metaphorics of science that allow writers to posit a...

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Published in:Eighteenth - Century Studies 2020-07, Vol.53 (4), p.750-752
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Science
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