Author: Brown, Harcourt [1900-1990]
Title: Science and the Human Comedy : Natural Philosophy in French Literature from Rabelais to Maupertuis
Description: Toronto, University of Toronto Press, (1976). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xx,221 pp. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series, 30.. Textual illustrations.. Some pencilled marginal notes & light underlinings. Good. ¶ Contents: Science & the Artifact; Pantagreul & Health; Science & the Pensé es of Pascal; History, Science & the Journal des Scavans; 'Les gens de maintenant'; Science & the Human Comedy: Voltaire; Voltaire & British Science; From London to Lapland & Berlin; 'l'Homme : tel qu'il est'.

Keywords: French Literary History, Natural Philosophy, Science, France, Literature, Criticism, , ,