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Publikováno v:
Under the Literary Microscope
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271090139-002
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271090139-002
“Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well
Autor:
Roslynn D. Haynes
Publikováno v:
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 64:127-148
Science and its predecessor, alchemy, have been topics of fiction in the West for over five centuries but until late last century novelists, with few exceptions, condemned science and scientists on social and moral grounds. However, since the 1990s,
Autor:
Roslynn D. Haynes
Publikováno v:
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_8454
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_8454
Autor:
Roslynn D. Haynes
Sand. Cacti. Lizards. Mirages. Deserts call to mind exotic places, a sense of adventure and freedom, but also thirst and desolation. In Desert, Roslynn D. Haynes takes a fresh look at this geographical feature and cultural entity as it becomes an inc
Autor:
Roslynn D. Haynes
Publikováno v:
Public understanding of science (Bristol, England). 25(1)
The cluster of myths relating to the pursuit of knowledge has perpetuated the archetype of the alchemist/scientist as sinister, dangerous, possibly mad and threatening to society’s values. Shelley’s Frankenstein provided imagery and a vocabulary
Autor:
Roslynn D. Haynes
Publikováno v:
Public Understanding of Science. 4:435-444
1993 saw the appearance of yet another 'Frankenstein' film, following hot on the heels of the David Wicks production in 1993.
Autor:
Roslynn D. Haynes
Publikováno v:
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 20:187-197
Although the celestial observations made by the Aborigines were precise, the significance attached to them was conceptual rather than perceptual. It could not be derived from observation but only from knowledge gained by initiation into tribal values
Publikováno v:
Vistas in Astronomy. 36:231-252
In Queensland during the 19th century, there was no group of wealthy amateur astronomers willing to initiate astronomy as a science in its own right. Instead, astronomy was regarded in a purely pragmatic way, as a tool for surveying, time-keeping and