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This chapter examines Margaret Cavendish's bookObservations upon Experimental Philosophy and The Description of a New Blazing World. It explains that these books specifically targeted experimental philosophers and they were explicitly presented in response to Robert Hooke's Micrographia. This chapter suggests that Cavendish was opposed to the conception of natural philosophy as experimental and the use of instruments for the observation of nature.
Keywords: Margaret Cavendish; experimental philosophy; experimental philosophers; Robert Hooke; Micrographia; natural philosophy; observation of nature
Chapter. 6627 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: History of Science and Technology
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