Name: The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (en Inglés)
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Author: Webster, Erin
ISBN: 9780198850199

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The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Erin Webster

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9780198850199

Categorías

Siglo xvii, c. 1600-c. 1699
Estudios literarios: c. 1400-c. 1600
Estudios literarios: c. 1500-c. 1800
Estudios literarios: poesía y poetas

The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (en Inglés)

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The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? In our everyday lives, we rely on optical technology to provide us with information about visually remote spaces even as we question the efficacy and ethics of such pursuits. But the debates surrounding the subject of technologically mediated vision have their roots in a much older literary tradition in which the ability to see beyond the limits of natural human vision is associated with philosophical and spiritual insight as well as social and political control. The Curious Eye provides insight into the subject of optically-mediated vision by returning to the literature of the seventeenth century, the historical moment in which human visual capacity in the West was first extended through the application of optical technologies to the eye. Bringing imaginative literary works by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn together with optical and philosophical treatises by Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, the volume explores the social and intellectual impact of the new optical technologies of the seventeenth century on its literature. At the same time, it demonstrates that social, political, and literary concerns are not peripheral to the optical science of the period but, rather, an integral part of it, the legacy of which we continue to experience.