The natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish : reason and fancy during the scientific revolution / Lisa T. Sarasohn.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, led a remarkable -- and controversial -- life, writing poetry and prose and philosophizing on the natural world at a time when women were denied any means of a formal education. This book examines her work and explores the unorthodox development of her natur...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;
128th ser., 2. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Gender, nature, and natural philosophy -- A wonderful natural philosopher -- Cavendish's early atomism -- The life of matter -- The imaginative universe of natures pictures -- The politics of matter -- The challenge of immaterial matter -- Cavendish against the experimenters -- Material regenerations -- Does Cavendish matter? | |
| 520 | |a Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, led a remarkable -- and controversial -- life, writing poetry and prose and philosophizing on the natural world at a time when women were denied any means of a formal education. This book examines her work and explores the unorthodox development of her natural philosophy. Cavendish wrote copiously on topics such as gender, power, manners, scientific method, and animal rationality. The first woman to publish her own natural philosophy, Cavendish was not afraid to challenge the new science and even ridiculed the mission of the Royal Society. Her philosophy reflected popular culture and engaged with the most radical philosophies of her age. To understand her scientific thought, the author explains, is to understand the reception of new knowledge through both insider and outsider perspectives in early modern England. In close readings of Cavendish's writings the author explores the gendered elements of her natural philosophy. Cavendish saw knowledge as a continuum between reason and fancy, and her work integrated imaginative speculation and physical science. Because she was denied the university education available to her male counterparts, she embraced an epistemology that favored contemplation and intuition over logic and empiricism. | ||
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