TY - BOOK ID - 78141329 TI - Fictions of the cosmos AU - Aït-Touati, Frédérique AU - Emanuel, Susan PY - 2011 SN - 9780226011240 0226011240 1283281570 9781283281577 0226011224 9780226011226 9780226011226 0226011224 9786613281579 PB - Chicago London DB - UniCat KW - Cosmología KW - Literatura KW - Cosmology in literature. KW - Literature and science. KW - Cosmology KW - European literature KW - Poetry and science KW - Science and literature KW - Science and poetry KW - Science and the humanities KW - History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Cosmology in literature KW - Literature and science KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Cosmologie dans la littérature KW - Littérature et sciences KW - Cosmologie KW - Littérature européenne KW - Histoire KW - Histoire et critique KW - scientific, scientist, universe, stars, astrology, literature, literary, 1600s, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, stories, renaissance, enlightenment, time period, era, natural philosopher, philosophy, nature, philosophical, discourse, terms, astronomy, astronomical, planets, space, kepler, godwin, close reading, analysis, critique, interdisciplinary. KW - Universo KW - Metafísica KW - Deísmo KW - Ciencias espaciales KW - Cosmología antigua KW - Cosmología bíblica KW - Agujeros negros (Astronomía) KW - Cosmología judía KW - Filosofía de la naturaleza KW - Literatura mundial KW - Arte literario KW - Bellas letras KW - Ficción KW - Filología KW - Romanceros KW - Absurdo (Filosofía) en la literatura KW - Crítica literaria KW - Adivinación en la literatura KW - África en la literatura KW - Afrodita (Deidad griega) en la literatura KW - Agricultura en la literatura KW - Agua en la literatura KW - Alimentos en la literatura KW - Argumentos (Teatro, novela, etc.) KW - Géneros literarios KW - Juegos lingüísticos KW - Parodias KW - Prosa KW - Arte de escribir KW - Orígenes KW - Thematology KW - History of civilization KW - anno 1600-1699 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141329 AB - In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so distinct. Just as the natural philosophers of the era were discovering in and adopting from literature new strategies and techniques for their discourse, so too were poets and storytellers finding inspiration in natural philosophy, particularly in astronomy. A work that speaks to the history of science and literary studies, Fictions of the Cosmos explores the evolving relationship that ensued between fiction and astronomical authority. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, Frédérique Aït-Touati shows that it was through the telling of stories-such as through accounts of celestial journeys-that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Aït-Touati draws from both cosmological treatises and fictions of travel and knowledge, as well as personal correspondences, drawings, and instruments, to emphasize the multiple borrowings between scientific and literary discourses. This volume sheds new light on the practices of scientific invention, experimentation, and hypothesis formation by situating them according to their fictional or factual tendencies. ER -