Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth Century by Jonathan Taylor PAPERBACK

Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth Century Literature\nby Jonathan Taylor\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jonathan Taylor\nTitle: Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth Century Literature\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9781845196479\nISBN-10: 1845196473\nRRP: \u00A354.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis 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 omniscienc.