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This AHRC-DFG funded project will run from 2024-2027.
It explores a mass of natural philosophical poetry from the period, with the aim of bringing unknown texts to light and showing how poetic writing was central to the practice and communication of scientific knowledge.
A key understanding of the project is that poetry not only developed new natural philosophical theories, but poetic writing produced new structures, forms and vocabularies through which to think through scientific ideas.