Author: Alessio Mattana
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Wickman, Matthew, Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment
Matthew Wickman, Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) viii + 293 pp. 7 Illustrations. £54.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780812247954 Is the eighteenth-century cultural heritage of Euclid in the Scottish Enlightenment a question for foxes of hedgehogs? For Matthew Wickman, Professor of English at Brigham Young University,…
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Coppola, Al, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Al Coppola, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016), x + 265 pp. £56.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780190269715 ‘All the philosophies that men have learned or devised are, in our opinion, so many plays produced and performed which have created false and fictitious worlds’. This quotation from Lord Bacon’s…
