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The writing of science in the period 1580-1700 is artfully, diffidently, carelessly, boldly, and above all self-consciously literary. The Poetics o...

How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorica...

Claire Preston's Bee tells the busy story of our long, complex relationship with this industrious, much-admired insect. Moving from ancient politic...