Touching the cold in the Little Ice Age: Reason and fancy in Robert Boyle’s and Margaret Cavendish’s writings on northern cold
Climate change urges us to reconsider the very cold. Its natural manifestations – ice and snow – are today shrinking elements, and the gravity of melting glaciers and thawing polar regions is indeed deeply worrying for the planet as a whole. In this article questions will be raised concerning how co...
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ftunivlundojs:oai:journals.lub.lu.se:article/25110 2024-02-04T09:58:33+01:00 Touching the cold in the Little Ice Age: Reason and fancy in Robert Boyle’s and Margaret Cavendish’s writings on northern cold Rosengren, Cecilia 2024-01-10 application/pdf https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25110 https://doi.org/10.48202/25110 swe swe Lärdomshistoriska samfundet https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25110/22743 https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25110 doi:10.48202/25110 Copyright (c) 2023 Cecilia Rosengren https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Lychnos: Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society; 2023: Lychnos Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria; 2023: Lychnos 2004-4852 0076-1648 Robert Boyle Margaret Cavendish cold ice imaginary the North the Arctic Robert Boye info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Sakkunniggranskad artikel 2024 ftunivlundojs https://doi.org/10.48202/25110 2024-01-10T23:29:58Z Climate change urges us to reconsider the very cold. Its natural manifestations – ice and snow – are today shrinking elements, and the gravity of melting glaciers and thawing polar regions is indeed deeply worrying for the planet as a whole. In this article questions will be raised concerning how cold was understood and imagined during the Little Ice Age, when the freezing cold was a regular part of the everyday life in large parts of Europe. The very cold became an object of enquiry for natural philosophers in unprecedented ways. The article focuses on Robert Boyle’s New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun (London, 1665) and Margaret Cavendish’s Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (London, 1666) and explores early modern English imaginaries of the polar regions, and how they join in the scientific debate on how to understand the cold. Climate change urges us to reconsider the very cold. Its natural manifestations – ice and snow – are today shrinking elements, and the gravity of melting glaciers and thawing polar regions is indeed deeply worrying for the planet as a whole. In this article questions will be raised concerning how cold was understood and imagined during the Little Ice Age, when the freezing cold was a regular part of the everyday life in large parts of Europe. The very cold became an object of enquiry for natural philosophers in unprecedented ways. The article focuses on Robert Boyle’s New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun (London, 1665) and Margaret Cavendish’s Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (London, 1666) and explores early modern English imaginaries of the polar regions, and how they join in the scientific debate on how to understand the cold. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Open Journals at Lund University (OJLU) Arctic Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria |
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Climate change urges us to reconsider the very cold. Its natural manifestations – ice and snow – are today shrinking elements, and the gravity of melting glaciers and thawing polar regions is indeed deeply worrying for the planet as a whole. In this article questions will be raised concerning how cold was understood and imagined during the Little Ice Age, when the freezing cold was a regular part of the everyday life in large parts of Europe. The very cold became an object of enquiry for natural philosophers in unprecedented ways. The article focuses on Robert Boyle’s New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun (London, 1665) and Margaret Cavendish’s Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (London, 1666) and explores early modern English imaginaries of the polar regions, and how they join in the scientific debate on how to understand the cold. Climate change urges us to reconsider the very cold. Its natural manifestations – ice and snow – are today shrinking elements, and the gravity of melting glaciers and thawing polar regions is indeed deeply worrying for the planet as a whole. In this article questions will be raised concerning how cold was understood and imagined during the Little Ice Age, when the freezing cold was a regular part of the everyday life in large parts of Europe. The very cold became an object of enquiry for natural philosophers in unprecedented ways. The article focuses on Robert Boyle’s New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun (London, 1665) and Margaret Cavendish’s Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (London, 1666) and explores early modern English imaginaries of the polar regions, and how they join in the scientific debate on how to understand the cold. |
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Touching the cold in the Little Ice Age: Reason and fancy in Robert Boyle’s and Margaret Cavendish’s writings on northern cold |
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Touching the cold in the Little Ice Age: Reason and fancy in Robert Boyle’s and Margaret Cavendish’s writings on northern cold |
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