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Swift and Science
The Satire, Politics and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730
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It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Altitudes of Authority
- 1 Meditations and Mechanisms: Swift and Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects
- 2 Sinking the 'Spider's Cittadel': The Battel of the Books and Thomas Burnet's 'Philosophical Romance' of the Earth
- 3 Newtonian Battels with Rising Stars and Wheeling Moons
- 4 Laputian Newtons: Science, the Wood's Halfpence Affair and Gulliver's Travels
- 5 Socinians and Queens: Samuel Clarke and 'Directions for a Birthday Song'
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index