Author : Ladina Bezzola Lambert
Release : 2002
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 784/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imagining the Unimaginable by : Ladina Bezzola Lambert
Download or read book Imagining the Unimaginable written by Ladina Bezzola Lambert. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: How metaphors matter: Astolfo's lunar journey in the Orlando furioso. - Images proposed in Jest: Galileo's Sidereus nuncius and the dialogue. - The stuff that dreams are made of: Kepler's Somnium. - Worlds of words: Cyrano de Bergerac's Lune and Soleil. - Metaphors as systems of thought: Fontenelle, Cyrano, Wilkins and Huygens.