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Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
About this book
This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are 'world[s] / Of destined habitation'. Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword and acknowledgments
- Note on text and usage
- Preface: A cosmical epic
- Chapter 1 The discarded image
- Chapter 2 Multiverse, Chaos, Cosmos
- Chapter 3 Copernicus and the cosmological bricoleurs
- Chapter 4 Milton and Galileo revisited (1): "Incredible delight"
- Chapter 5 Milton and Galileo revisited (2): "What if?"
- Chapter 6 The Sun
- Chapter 7 Planet Earth
- Chapter 8 Space Flight, ET, and other worlds
- Epilogue "The meaning, not the name"
- Appendix The astronomical science of Milton as shown in Paradise Lost
- Bibliographical note
- Index