| Description |
417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus -- 2. Bacon's New Scientists -- 3. Foolish Virtuosi -- 4. Newton: A Scientist for God -- 5. Arrogant and Godless: Scientists in Eighteenth-Century Satire -- 6. Inhuman Scientists: The Romantic Perception -- 7. Frankenstein and the Monster -- 8. Victorian Scientists: Doubt and Struggle -- 9. The Scientist as Adventurer -- 10. Efficiency and Power: The Scientist under Scrutiny --11. The Scientist as Hero -- 12. Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: Reality Overtakes Fiction -- 13. The Impersonal Scientist -- 14. Scientia Gratia Scientiae: The Amoral Scientist -- 15. The Scientist's Science Out of Control -- 16. The Scientist Rehabilitated |
| Analysis |
Literature Related to Science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-407) and index |
| Subject |
Literature and science.
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Scientists in literature.
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| LC no. |
94007023 |
| ISBN |
0801848016 (hc : acid-free paper) |
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0801849837 (paperback) |
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