Author: Markley, Robert
Title: Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x,268 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Physico-Theology: Dialogics, History & Theory; "A Close (through Mystick) Connection": Boyle's Defense of the Bible; "Babel Revers'd": Real Characters, Philosophical Languages & Idealizations of Order; "Those Fabulous Chaldeans": Boyle & the Crisis of Baconianism; "Ye True & Real Temple of God": Mathematics, History, & the Narrative Structures of Newton's Natural Philosophy; "The Interposition of Omniscience": History, Method, & Aesthetics in Early Eighteenth-Century Newtonianism"; Boyle "Epitomiz'd": The Reinscription of Science in Early Eighteenth-Century England.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Isaac Newton, History of Science, Rhetoric, Mimesis, Robert Boyle, England,