Hemispheres and Stratospheres : The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment, PDF eBook

Hemispheres and Stratospheres : The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment PDF

Edited by Cope Kevin L. Cope

Part of the Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 series

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Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods. Through studies of landscape gardens, architecture, imaginary voyages, transcontinental philosophical exchange, and cosmological poetry, Hemispheres and Stratospheres unfurls the early history of a distance culture that influences our own era of global information exchange, long-haul flights, colossal skyscrapers, and space tourism.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
 

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