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== The Microscope and the English Imagination == | == The Microscope and the English Imagination == | ||
Pepys buys microscope, Power's ''Experimental Philosophy'', and Hooke's ''Micrographia''; records many conversations on it during 1664-6 (169-170) | '''Pepys''' buys microscope, Power's ''Experimental Philosophy'', and Hooke's ''Micrographia''; records many conversations on it during 1664-6 (169-170) | ||
Abraham Cowley, "To the Royal Society" [[http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/works/RoyalSociety.htm]] | '''Abraham Cowley''', "To the Royal Society" [[http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/works/RoyalSociety.htm]] | ||
::Nature's great Workes no distance can obscure, | ::Nature's great Workes no distance can obscure, | ||
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::And well begun her deepest Sense to Understand. | ::And well begun her deepest Sense to Understand. | ||
Samuel Butler, "The Elephant in the Moon" [[http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2214/searchFulltext.do?id=Z000293315&divLevel=0&queryId=&area=Poetry&forward=textsFT&print=No&warn=Yes&size=676Kb]] | '''Samuel Butler''', "The Elephant in the Moon" [[http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2214/searchFulltext.do?id=Z000293315&divLevel=0&queryId=&area=Poetry&forward=textsFT&print=No&warn=Yes&size=676Kb]] | ||
* about a society of men gathering to look through a telescope and see curious men on the moon | * about a society of men gathering to look through a telescope and see curious men on the moon | ||
* includes satire of microscopists: "one, whose Task was to determin / And solve th' Appearances of Vermin; / Wh' had made profound Discoveries / In Frogs, and Toads, and Rats, and Mice" | * includes satire of microscopists: "one, whose Task was to determin / And solve th' Appearances of Vermin; / Wh' had made profound Discoveries / In Frogs, and Toads, and Rats, and Mice" | ||
"Hudibras" | |||
::How many different Specieses | |||
::Of Maggots breed in rotten Cheeses; | |||
::And which are next of kin to those | |||
::Engender'd in a Chandler's nose; | |||
::Or those not seen, but understood, | |||
::That live in Vinegar and Wood. | |||
other miscellaneous verse by Butler on the microscope: | other miscellaneous verse by Butler on the microscope: | ||
Revision as of 14:34, 5 August 2010
Nicolson, Marjorie. Science and Imagination. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1956.
The Microscope and the English Imagination
Pepys buys microscope, Power's Experimental Philosophy, and Hooke's Micrographia; records many conversations on it during 1664-6 (169-170)
Abraham Cowley, "To the Royal Society" [[1]]
- Nature's great Workes no distance can obscure,
- No smalness her near Objects can secure
- Y'have taught the curious Sight to press
- Into the privatest recess
- Of her imperceptible Littleness.
- Y'have learn'd to Read her smallest Hand,
- And well begun her deepest Sense to Understand.
Samuel Butler, "The Elephant in the Moon" [[2]]
- about a society of men gathering to look through a telescope and see curious men on the moon
- includes satire of microscopists: "one, whose Task was to determin / And solve th' Appearances of Vermin; / Wh' had made profound Discoveries / In Frogs, and Toads, and Rats, and Mice"
"Hudibras"
- How many different Specieses
- Of Maggots breed in rotten Cheeses;
- And which are next of kin to those
- Engender'd in a Chandler's nose;
- Or those not seen, but understood,
- That live in Vinegar and Wood.
other miscellaneous verse by Butler on the microscope:
- When one, who for his Excellence
- In height'ning Words and shad'wing Sense,
- And magnifying all he writ
- With curious microscopick Wit,
- Was magnify'd himself no less
- In home and foreign Colleges,
- He that would understand what you have writ
- Must read it through a Microscop of wit;
- For evry Line is Drawn so curious there
- He must have more then eies that reads it cleare.