Intellectual Historical Research of Science in Literature: The Change of Cosmology and the Idea of Death in Early Modern England
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23520312
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Keywords | コスモロジー / インフィニティ / アトミズム / Thomas Harriot / George Chapman / Henry Percy / Giordano Bruno / Marsilio Ficino / Thomas Digges / Biordano Bruno |
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| Research Abstract |
(1) I surveyed and wrote a draft of the conspectus of cosmology from Plato to Galileo and Kepler.
(2) I read and examined closely the manuscripts by Thomas Harriot, who is called English Galileo, and also read the writings by Glbert, Digges, and Newton, all of whom are contemporary astronomers of Harriot, in order to clear the cosmology in early modern England. The present research is focused on infinity and atomism.
(3) I read the poems by George Chapman, a member of Henry Percy Circle, to which Harriot belonged. In reading his poems, I found their idea of the creation of the world and their attitude to the created world. I deepened my research, reading the writings by Giordano Bruno and Marcilio Ficino as well, because Percy Circle members studied earnestly those philosophers. I pupblished the result of my research as an article in a book Endings and Beginnings in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, after having read papers in two academic societies in Japan and in England.
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