Stephanie Ranks
8th Year
Areas of Interest:
17th & 18th cen. science and literature: optics; experimental philosophy; taxonomy; georgics; history of the book and reading; Milton, Cavendish, Thomson; Bacon, Charleton, Hooke, Power, Boyle, Newton, Wilkins, Linnaeus
Dissertation Topic:
‘Infinite compositions and divisions’: the space of argument from Milton to Thomson
Advisors: Jonathan Kramnick, John Rogers, Catherine Nicholson