International audienceAs the XVIIth century “scientific revolution” went on, satirists hostile to the rise of experimentalism exploited the sceptical argument according to which scientific theories do not differ in nature from fictions. Critics of the Royal Society, such as Samuel Butler, Margaret Cavendish and Jonathan Swift, staged experimental scientists as fiction-makers. Their writings connect in many ways with the history of scepticism, as they drew their inspiration from Montaigne and more contemporary philosophers. However fanciful, their satires make a case for serious doubts over the possibility of securing some knowledge of nature.L’argument sceptique selon lequel les théories scientifiques pourraient être réduites à des fictions...
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International audienceAs the XVIIth century “scientific revolution” went on, satirists hostile to th...
International audienceThe observations made through microscopes during the first half of the 18th ce...
Frequent among Renaissance humanists, the criticism of vain curiosity became popular again with the ...
Abstract This dissertation examines the socio-political underpinnings of the satires about science t...
The line that I take for my title, spoken by Bayes in the Duke of Buckingham\u27s The Rehearsal (16...
Ignoring the satire of learned women, a topos of classical drama at the end of the 17th century, Mag...
This thesis challenges the traditional view that satire largely targeted science in the Enlightenmen...
Satire on science has often been regarded by critics as a marginal aspect of Jonathan Swift’s work. ...
SUMMARY. — In 1661 Boyle presented a dialogue making use of a skeptical line of reasoning. His purpo...
In 1661, when Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist, he was trying to assess the cons...
Science fiction critics have dueled over definitions of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-cen...
International audienceFréquente chez les humanistes de la Renaissance, la critique de la curiosité v...
Science and scientific method have evolved in parallel with changes in philosophical ideas. One asp...
On s’accorde généralement à faire du troisième voyage de Gulliver la partie la plus faible de l’ouvr...
Cette étude se propose d’étudier les croisements entre les sciences et la satire dans la poésie de J...
International audienceAs the XVIIth century “scientific revolution” went on, satirists hostile to th...
International audienceThe observations made through microscopes during the first half of the 18th ce...
Frequent among Renaissance humanists, the criticism of vain curiosity became popular again with the ...
Abstract This dissertation examines the socio-political underpinnings of the satires about science t...
The line that I take for my title, spoken by Bayes in the Duke of Buckingham\u27s The Rehearsal (16...
Ignoring the satire of learned women, a topos of classical drama at the end of the 17th century, Mag...
This thesis challenges the traditional view that satire largely targeted science in the Enlightenmen...
Satire on science has often been regarded by critics as a marginal aspect of Jonathan Swift’s work. ...
SUMMARY. — In 1661 Boyle presented a dialogue making use of a skeptical line of reasoning. His purpo...
In 1661, when Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist, he was trying to assess the cons...
Science fiction critics have dueled over definitions of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-cen...
International audienceFréquente chez les humanistes de la Renaissance, la critique de la curiosité v...
Science and scientific method have evolved in parallel with changes in philosophical ideas. One asp...
On s’accorde généralement à faire du troisième voyage de Gulliver la partie la plus faible de l’ouvr...
Cette étude se propose d’étudier les croisements entre les sciences et la satire dans la poésie de J...