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Science & Omniscience in Nineteenth Century Literature (HB@PB Price)
Jonathan Taylor
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
This book takes as its starting point Pierre-Simon Laplace's much-cited dream in 1812 of 'a vast intelligence' which can 'embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom' and for which the future and the past are equally calculable. Laplace sets out THE echt-Enlightenment ideal of scientific omniscience and the classic statement of a deterministic universe. The author investigates some of the ways in which Laplacian and, indeed, Newtonian models of observation and the universe are at once assimilated and complicated by Romantic and Victorian writers such as Carlyle, ... Read more
This book takes as its starting point Pierre-Simon Laplace's much-cited dream in 1812 of 'a vast intelligence' which can 'embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom' and for which the future and the past are equally calculable. Laplace sets out THE echt-Enlightenment ideal of scientific omniscience and the classic statement of a deterministic universe. The author investigates some of the ways in which Laplacian and, indeed, Newtonian models of observation and the universe are at once assimilated and complicated by Romantic and Victorian writers such as Carlyle, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196479
SKU
V9781845196479
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99-50
About Jonathan Taylor
Jonathan Taylor is Lecturer in English at Loughborough. He is the author of Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing, as well as of essays on Victorian literature. He is currently working on a book on the idea of chaos in nineteenth-century English culture.
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