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Science And Omniscience In Nineteenth-Century Literature
Science And Omniscience In NineteenthCentury Literature
Author: Jonathan Taylor
This book takes as its starting point Pierre-Simon Laplace's much-cited dream in 1812 of 'a vast intelligence' which can 'embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom' and for which the future and the past are equally calculable. Laplace sets out THE echt-Enlightenment ideal of s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781845191252
ISBN-10: 1845191250
Pages: 202
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Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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