Perception and Analogy - by Rosalind Powell (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the eighteenth century. It draws novel connections between theories of perception and the creative methods employed by poets, theologians, and scientists in their explorations of astronomy, light, colour, and the body.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Perception and analogy </i>explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the period, drawing novel connections between treatments of perception as an embodied phenomenon and the creative methods employed by natural philosophers. Covering a wealth of literary, theological, and pedagogical texts that engage with astronomy, optics, ophthalmology, and the body, it argues for the significance of analogies for conceptualising and explaining new scientific ideas. As well as identifying their use in religious and topographical poetry, the book addresses how analogies are visible in material culture through objects such as orreries, camera obscuras, and aeolian harps. It makes the vital claim that scientific concepts become intertwined with Christian discourse through reinterpretations of origins and signs, the scope of the created universe, and the limits of embodied knowledge.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Gazing out over natural landscapes or inspecting individual phenomena up close, wielding prisms or telescopes, admiring models and considering abstract philosophical puzzles, even taking imaginative journeys through space in moments of contemplation: all of these are activities familiar to the eighteenth-century reader. <i>Perception and analogy </i>explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. It discusses literary, theological, and pedagogical texts alongside popular works on astronomy, optics, ophthalmology, and the body, to demonstrate how readers are prompted to take on a range of perspectives in their acquisition of scientific knowledge. With reference to topics from colour perception to cataract surgery, the book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the eighteenth century. It argues that by paying attention to the period's documentation of perception as an embodied phenomenon we can better understand the creative methods employed by disseminators of diverse natural philosophical ideas. Rosalind Powell's valuable study draws together a wealth of material to argue for the central role of analogies in conceptualising and explaining new scientific ideas. In addition to its focus on religious and topographical poetry, the book addresses how this approach is reflected in material culture through objects - such as orreries, camera obscuras, and aeolian harps - that facilitate acts of perception and tactile engagement within polite spaces. The book makes the vital claim that scientific concepts become intertwined with Christian discourse through reinterpretations of origins and signs, the scope of the created universe, and the limits of this embodied knowledge.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Rosalind Powell is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol
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