The Experimental Imagination – Literary Knowledge and Science in the British En…

The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment\nby Tita Chico\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tita Chico\nTitle: The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781503613591\nISBN-10: 1503613593\nRRP: \u00A325.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nChallenging the \""two cultures\"" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science relied on wha.