Hester Pulter's Particle Physics and the Poetics of Involution.
This article argues that Hester Pulter's physics--her philosophy of matter and the cosmos--is inextricable from her poetics. The essay offers an overview of Pulter's varying, sometimes conflicting assumptions about the most fundamental particles of nature, from "atoms" to "dust" to "causes"--while a...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 71 - 99 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2020
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