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Science fact or fiction? : you decide!
Find out the answers to amazing science mysteries. Does Bigfoot really exist? Is time travel possible? Are aliens real? Are these science facts or science fiction?
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Nervous Fictions
\"The brain contains ten thousand cells,\" wrote the poet Matthew
Prior in 1718, \"in each some active fancy dwells.\" In the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to
better understand the workings of the nerves, the nervous system
became the site for a series of elaborate fantasies. The pineal
gland is transformed into a throne for the sovereign soul. Animal
spirits march the nerves like parading soldiers. An internal
archivist searches through cerebral impressions to locate certain
memories. An anatomist discovers that the brain of a fashionable
man is stuffed full of beautiful clothes and billet-doux. A
hypochondriac worries that his own brain will be disassembled like
a watch. A sentimentalist sees the entire world as a giant nervous
system comprising sympathetic spectators.
Nervous Fictions is the first account of the
Enlightenment origins of neuroscience and the \"active fancies\" it
generated. By surveying the work of scientists (Willis, Newton,
Cheyne), philosophers (Descartes, Cavendish, Locke), satirists
(Swift, Pope), and novelists (Haywood, Fielding, Sterne), Keiser
shows how attempts to understand the brain's relationship to the
mind produced in turn new literary forms. Early brain anatomists
turned to tropes to explicate psyche and cerebrum, just as poets
and novelists found themselves exploring new kinds of mental and
physical interiority. In this respect, literary language became a
tool to aid scientific investigation, while science spurred
literary invention.
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Superhero science : kapow! comic book crime fighters put physics to the test
Describes real scientific breakthroughs and how they mirror the \"super powers\" of fictional heroes.
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Ground-work : English Renaissance literature and soil science
How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now.
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Try this! Extreme : 50 fun & safe experiments for the mad scientist in you
\"Experiments for young children to conduct to learn about science\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Leonardo's Fables
Leonardo's Fables explores the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo's fables and their relationship to illustrations and scientific studies. By concentrating on the chaotic character of Leonardo's textual and visual annotations, the author gradually discloses the artist's creative thinking that uses the page as a space for experimentation. Fables allow Leonardo to tie together his technical and artistic skills, empirical observation, and experience to reveal the interactive forces at the basis of physical phenomena and the tensions between painting and humanistic culture. This study reevaluates Leonardo's fables as part of a literary, aesthetic, and scientific project aimed at the investigation of Nature.
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Little kids first big book of science
\"Information and photographs of scientific theories and facts, for young children\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Experimental life : vitalism in Romantic science and literature
Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences.
Winner of the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, BSLS Book Prize of the British Society for Literature and Science
If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study has investigated what it meant for artists to experiment and how those experiments related to their interest in the concept of life.
Experimental Life draws on approaches and ideas from contemporary science studies, proposing the concept of experimental vitalism to show both how Romantic authors appropriated the concept of experimentation from the sciences and the impact of their appropriation on post-Romantic concepts of literature and art.
Robert Mitchell navigates complex conceptual arenas such as network theory, gift exchange, paranoia, and biomedia and introduces new concepts, such as cryptogamia, chylopoietic discourse, trance-plantation, and the poetics of suspension. As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.
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Think like a scientist on the playground
Teaches readers how to use thinking and observation skills outside on the playground.
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Biological Time, Historical Time
Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains - medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation - are investigated. Literary texts are analysed in their participation in and transformation of the scientific imagination. Special attention is accorded to the temporal dimension: this allows for an innovative account of key concepts of 19th century culture.
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