Swift and Science

1. Introduction: Altitudes of Authority
Gregory Lynall

2. Meditations and Mechanisms: Swift and Robert Boyle’s Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects

Gregory Lynall

3. Sinking the ‘Spider’s Cittadel’: The Battel of the Books and Thomas Burnet’s ‘Philosophical Romance’ of the Earth
Gregory Lynall

4. Newtonian Battels with Rising Stars and Wheeling Moons
Gregory Lynall

5. Laputian Newtons: Science, the Wood’s Halfpence Affair and Gulliver’s Travels

Gregory Lynall

6. Socinians and Queens: Samuel Clarke and ‘Directions for a Birthday Song’
Gregory Lynall

7. Afterword
Gregory Lynall

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History