The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World Cavendish Lady Margaret LucasPaperback
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World Cavendish Lady Margaret LucasPaperback In this remarkable proto-science fiction story from 1666--which also bear striking resemblances with…
Specifikacia The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World Cavendish Lady Margaret LucasPaperback
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World Cavendish Lady Margaret LucasPaperback
In this remarkable proto-science fiction story from 1666--which also bear striking resemblances with modern fantasy--the author Lady Margaret Cavendish explores an allegorical and satirical world, which she finds through a portal at the North Pole. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World criticize and explore such issues as science, gender and power.The natural philosopher, author and poet Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73) lived during the scientific revolution and participated in this brand new world, with contemporaries such as Descartes, Leibniz and Newton. The bizarre beings in this world need to understand the true meaning of science and philosophy, which Lady Cavendish provides them, and thus she becomes their empress.
She was the first--and during a long time the One of her correspondents was the astronomer Huygens.
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