This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.
- ISBN13 9780674027114
- Publish Date 1 July 2009 (first published 17 March 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 192
- Language English
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