Technology and the Early Modern Self Book

List of Figures

1 Introduction: A New Instrument 1

Part 1

2 The Clockwork Self: Mechanical Clockwork and Early Modern Discipline 23

Part 2

3 Confessions of a Man in Print: Cataloguing Erasmian Literary Ambition 53

4 Painted Words Put into the Press: The Forms and Functions of Ambition in Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender 71

5 All Works and No Plays: Jonson's 1616 Folio and the Redefinition of Dramatic Authorship 91

Part 3

6 The Nimble Gunner and the Versatile Prince: Agility and the Early Modern Military Revolution 115

Part 4

7 Perspectives on Perspective: The Philosophic Eye and the Prehistory of the Telescope and the Microscope 137

8 A New "Perspective Glass": Telescopic Discoveries of Universal Uniformity 151

9 "To see a World in a Grain of Sand": Microscopic Perspectives on Subvisible Wonders 173

Afterword: Reconsiderations and Prospects 209

Notes 215

Bibliography 247

Index 261