Nature’s Poetry and Humanity’s Artifice: Cavendish on the Role of the Imagination in Natural Philosophy

Perceived by many of her contemporaries as preferring theories spun from her own “fantastical” brain to the hard facts of science, Cavendish indeed accords a central role to the workings of the imagining mind. However, as I argue in this paper, Cavendish’s appeal to the imagination is by no means me...

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1. Verfasser: Borcherding, Julia
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Français
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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