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Literature and Science  
Writers who explore scientific thinking. The changing relation of science, or natural philosophy, to literature in the seventeenth century in the work of William Harvey, Margaret Cavendish, and John Milton. Nineteenth-century America and the emergence of the fields of medical studies and racial science in the writings of David Walker, influenced by the work of Thomas Jefferson. Contemporary science fiction about robots in the novels of Philip K. Dick and Richard Powers.
Program 63
  Participants
N. Katherine Hayles
Franny Nudelman
John Rogers

 

 
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