Literature and Science

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List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Frontispiece Editor's introduction: The Sphinx and the Muses: the third culture Part I. Literature and Science: 1. Literary Chinese as a scientific language. A selection from the concluding volume of Science and Civilisation in China. With illustrations Joseph Needham and Kenneth Robinson 2. 'The names of things not generally known ...': scientists, translators and terminology in the age of Newton L. G. Kelly 3. The poet's senses: G. B. Marino's epic poem L'Adone and the new science Maurice Slawinski 4. Science and supernaturalism: Sir David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott. With illustrations Frederick Burwick 5. Helmholtz, Tyndall, Gerard Manley Hopkins: leaps of the prepared imagination Gillian Beer 6. The hermeneutics of extinction: denial and discovery in scientific literature Joel Black 7. Beckett and science: Watt and the quantum universe Angela Montgomery Part II. Literature and Translation: 8. L'Experience de traduire: Verlaine's Femmes/Hombres Alistair Elliot 9. Notes on the Theory of Literary History Translated with an introduction by Ian Fairley Gyoergy Lukacs Part III. Essay Reviews: 10. Bacon among the literati: science and language Brian Vickers 11. A new discipline? Essays in 'literature and science' Roy Porter Bibliographies: Books and periodicals received Andrew Milne Bibliography of Comparative Literature in Britain and Ireland 1988 Joseph Th. Leerssen Special bibliography: Technical translation in England, 1640-1800 L. G. Kelly.