Defoe and the New Sciences 1st Edition by Ilse Vickers ISBN 0521024366 9780521024365

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ISBN 10: 0521024366

ISBN 13: 978-0521024365

Author:  Ilse Vickers 

Defoe and the New Sciences 1st Edition: In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal observation and experience, or his belief in man’s God-given duty to explore and make productive use of nature. In this first major study of Bacon’s legacy to Defoe, Ilse Vickers shows that the ideas and concepts of Baconian science were a major influence on Defoe’s thinking and writing. She outlines the intellectual principles behind Baconian science, and considers a wide range of Defoe’s work, from the point of view of his familiarity with the ideals of experimental philosophy.

 

Defoe and the New Sciences 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I. The Baconian Scientific Milieu:
1. The legacy of Francis Bacon
2. The selective taking-up of Bacon’s ideas: biographical sketches of five followers of Bacon
3. Charles Morton and the new sciences
Part II. Daniel Defoe:
4. Daniel Defoe and the Baconian legacy
5. Defoe’s General History of Trade: its relation to the Baconian histories
6. Robinson Crusoe: man’s progressive dominion over nature
7. A New Voyage round the World: Defoe the traveller-scientist by sea
8. Defoe’s Tour: a natural history of man and his activities

 

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