Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Science & Literature) by Jonathan Smith - 1994-10-15

University of Wisconsin Press, 1994-10-15. Paperback. Clean & Unmarked . 8x6x0. A very clean and straight copy. Nearly new. 277 pp.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr, 1994. Soft cover. New. Type: Book 1994. This book is an examination of Baconian Science and Literature in England in the 19th. Century. This book is brand new and sealed in the original plastic when shipped.

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Madison:: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994., 1994. 8vo. ix, [3], 277, [1] pp. Index. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. ISBN: 0299143546 "In his famous lecture on "The Two Cultures," C.P. Snow argued that the modern intellectual gulf between writers and artists on the one hand, scientists and engineers on the other, had its roots in the nineteenth century. Jonathan Smith challenges that view by examining the cultural debate about scientific method in nineteenth-century Britain. Focusing on the status of Francis Bacon and his inductive methodology, Smith shows that literary figures were involved, both directly and indirectly, in the effort to construct a methodology that would serve both science and literature by bringing together fact and feeling, reason and imagination. Smith opens with a historical overview of the debate that includes such figures as Samuel Coleridge, John Herschel, William Whewell, J.S. Mill, Thomas Macaulay, G.H. Lewes, John Tyndall, Stanley Jevons, and Karl Pearson. Then, in a… Read More

University of Wisconsin Press. Paperback. New. 8x6x0. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Paperback / softback. New. Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon to argue that literary figures were involved in constructing a methodology that would serve both science and literature, by bringing together reason and imagination.

Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1994. Paperback. New. 277 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon to argue that literary figures were involved in constructing a methodology that would serve both science and literature, by bringing together reason and imagination.