@inbook{c7205ec1e9bc43dfaa4e39134beddd2f,
title = "{\textquoteleft}Humanism and Scientific Invention in Neo-Latin Poetry of Enlightenment England{\textquoteright}",
abstract = "This chapter assesses and contextualizes a cluster of scientific neo-Latin verse which came to birth and flourished in the age of the Enlightenment. Focusing on Thomas Bisse (Microscopium; Machina Pneumatica), Henry Stephens (Machina Pneumatica), Joseph Addison (Barometri Descriptio), and Thomas Gray (Luna Habitabilis), it argues that the {"}invention{"} of such scientific instruments as the vacuum pump, the microscope, the barometer, and the telescope was cleverly mirrored by the quasi-humanistic {"}inventiveness{"} of neo-Latin poets of the age. In essence the achievements of “New Science” prompted their celebration in “New Latin” – in a neo-Latin poetic voice that imaginatively appropriated the language of classical didactic poetry in general, and of Lucretius and Virgil in particular. ",
author = "Estelle Haan",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
series = "Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
editor = "Yasmin Haskell and Laurence Brockliss and Floris Verhaart",
booktitle = "Latin in the Age of Enlightenment: Knowledge, Identity, and Innovation",
address = "United Kingdom",
}