Intuition and Authority: Literary Expression and Scientific Communication.
- Author / Editor
- Emerson, D Geoffrey.
Intuition and Authority: Literary Expression and Scientific Communication.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Alabama, 2019. v, 202 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.03(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and via https://ir.ua.edu/collections/ed5428de-61dd-4547-bb08-8be93f503728; accessed August 24, 2025.
- Description
- Surveys "sixteenth-century writers [sic] from Chaucer to Spenser and from Copernicus to Bacon, showing how they construct authority and attempt to rewrite intuitions about nature and her students. My subsequent chapters on physics, chemistry, and astronomy explore how conventions in poetry and fiction facilitate the communication of novel ideas." Includes comments on Astr, MilT, and CYPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Miller and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale