The Renaissance Vision of Function in Science and Poetry

FAIN: FT-12186-74

Harvey S. Wiener
City of the Morning Films (Massapequa, NY 11758-8505)

To study a large number of the Reanissance science documents in order to expand knowledge of the workings of the Reanissance mind. Of essential interest is what the scientist thougth of as their own purpose; what they thought of the poets and their claim to knowledge and power over nature; whether they saw the goals and methods of the two disciplines as complementary or antagonistic.