ABSTRACT
Margaret Cavendish's representation of earth would prove the most visionary from the perspective of modern science, as distinctions between the fields of meteorology and physiology grew, and geology emerged as a separate field. The advance of meteorology requires technology that was far in the future, such as that related to the harnessing of electricity and that enabling sonar, radar, and seismography. In early modern England, the rumbling of the meteorophysiological Titans of change could, serve as a memento mori. Engaged with meteorophysiological speculation, the early modern liberty exceeds that exercised by thinker’s centuries before and after. Seventeenth century literature shows an expansion in the variations possible for and application of meteorophysiological experience. Into the latter half of the seventeenth century, early moderns continued to employ roughly the same conceptual systems to account for the meteora. Renaissance meteorology—which, to drive home the point, is always meteorophysiological in representation—was dynamic and changing.
