Light and Death: Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton
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Early Modern Analogical Science Early Modern Analogical Science
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Classical Roots: Aristotle’s Philosophy, Varro’s Language, Quintilian’s Rhetoric Classical Roots: Aristotle’s Philosophy, Varro’s Language, Quintilian’s Rhetoric
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Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Translations: Boethius, Aquinas, Cajetan Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Translations: Boethius, Aquinas, Cajetan
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Closing the Frame Closing the Frame
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4 Connecting the Cultural Dots: Classical to Modern Traditions of Analogy
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Published:02 January 2017
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This chapter engages the history and structure of analogical figuration. It enables a theorized broadening of concerns from negation to construction, sin and death to life and light, and puts poetry and religion under the same canopy of creativity as science. Analogy, alternatively named proportion, is equally familiar to mathematicians, scientists, and poets. The theorized roots of analogy are Aristotelian—a subcategory of metaphor with a basis in mathematics. Early modern analogy has drawn the attention of contemporary scholars from many disciplines—historians of science, rhetoric, literature, philosophy, and religion—but often in isolation from one another. Instead, my argument emphasizes the bond among disciplines in their use of analogy for exploration, experiment, and discovery. It also addresses continuity and change between early modern and ancient uses of analogy and frames them with modern ones. Science and rhetoric are two of its major foci.
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