Early Modern Scientific Discourses: 1500-1750

Dear Friends and Colleagues:


The volume of essays EARLY MODERN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES 1500-1750 has received initial and favorable approval from Brepols publishing company. A final decision will be made pending receipt of the complete manuscript. One of the contributors has been forced to withdraw, and the editor is seeking another essay to complete the project. The volume surveys current approaches (Linguistics, History of Science, Rhetoric of Science, Cultural Studies of Science, Sociology of Science, etc.) to the question of science and language in the early modern period.

Suitable work-15 to 25 page previously unpublished essays with Chicago-style endnotes-should be directed to:

A.S. Weber, Editor
The Pennsylvania State University
Wilkes-Barre
Lehman, PA 18627

Deadline is March 30, 1998. The current list of contributors appears below:


WILLIAM BURNS (University of California - Los Angeles)
"'A Proverb of Versatile Mutability:' Proteus and Natural Knowledge in Seventeenth Century Britain"


STEPHEN CLUCAS (University of London)
"Little fishes swimming in vinegar: scalar commensurability and the status of the visual image in early modern microscopic and anti-microscopic discourses"


WILLIAM H. DONAHUE (Independent Scholar - Green Lion Press)
"Travel Books and Kepler's Rhetorical Strategy in the New Astronomy"

STEPHEN M. FALLON (University of Notre Dame)
"Sacred and Secular Scriptures in Bacon's New Organon"


MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
"The Rhetoric of the Galileo Affair, 1642-1737"


NICHOLAS HUDSON (University of British Columbia)
"The Alphabet of Nature": Writing as Trope in Seventeenth-century Scientific and Philosophical Discourse"


SARAH HUTTON (University of Hertfordshire)
"Science and Satire: Margaret Cavendish's New Blazing World and her Critique of Seventeenth-century Science"

HENRY KRIPS (University of Pittsburgh)
"The Vice of Virtual Witnessing"


RICHARD KROLL (University of California - Irvine)
"Natural Philosophy and John Evelyn's Literary Gardens"


GUY SPIELMANN (Georgetown University)
"'A sort of medical novel rife with errors and indecent stories': Sex, Lies and Scientific Discourse in Venette's Tableau de l'amour conjugal"

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© 1997-, R.G. Siemens (Editor, EMLS).
(PD 17 February 1998)