The Curious Eye is a book about the impact of optical technologies, including the microscope, the telescope, and the camera obscura, on seventeenth century English thought.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: Poetry as Optical Technology
- 2: Language Reform and the Lens of Simile in Experimentalist Texts
- 3: Envisioning Empire in Bacon, Hooke, and Cavendish
- 4: The Physics of Vision in Kepler, Descartes, and Milton
- 5: Perspective as a Conceptual Tool in Milton and Newton
- 6: The Optics of Virtue in Boyle, Cowley, and Behn
- Postscript: Prosthetic and Embodied Vision
