ABSTRACT

Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

ByDavid Beck

chapter 2|20 pages

The Moral Physiology of Laughter

ByStephen Pender

chapter 4|18 pages

The Use of Scripture in the Beast-Machine Controversy

ByLloyd Strickland