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Margaret Cavendish on Inconceivability
… textual puzzle that arises from Margaret Cavendish's use of inconceivability to make claims about what is metaphysically impossible. On the one hand, Cavendish asserts that objects or events she cannot conceive of are impossible in nature (i.e., inconceivability entails impossibility in …
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
<p>Although the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish is eclectic and uncustomary, it offers an important critique of contemporary scientific methods, especially mechanism and experimentalism. As presented in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World, Cavendish's natural …
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Synthesis and characterization of a biocomposite derived from banana plants (Musa cavendish)
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015.
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The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish as a tragedy in the "Fall of princes" tradition
George Cavendish’s Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey has been loosely linked with the "Fall of Princes" tradition, but no one has analyzed this connection in depth. This thesis examines various aspects of the changing "Fall of Princes" tradition as they appear in the biography. The first chapter …
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Fiction and Science: A Plausible World in the Early Modern Period Through the Writings of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish
… Godwin’s The Man in the Moone and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.</p>
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Mass appeal : saving the World's bananas from a devastating fungus
… to American supermarkets, was replaced with the Cavendish banana due to Fusarium wilt (also called Panama disease). The disease was caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum, and there was no cure. The only solution was to replace Gros Michel with the disease-resistant Cavendish. Now, the fungus is …
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A Contextual Analysis of Female Education and Discursive Power in Margaret Cavendish's Dramas, the Female Academy and Youths Glory and Deaths Banquet
… a complete, contextual portrait of Margaret Cavendish in order to claim her as a feminist, have failed to appreciate the ambiguous, female response to seventeenth-century, male imposed gender constraints demonstrated in her work. Self-conscious of her own subjugation to male sanction in …
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Cabalas and Cabals in Restoration Popular Literature
… environment of these unstable years. Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn seize upon the power and flexibility these words and their associations afford to turn them into generative devices to create and seize authority for themselves and for their opinions. In this process, Cavendish and Behn …
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Margaret Cavendish's Exploration of Consciousness in Her Writings
… autodidactic English intellectual Margaret Cavendish is fascinated by knowledge and how to secure for herself a place in the micro- as well as macrocosmic community of letters. In particular, Cavendish holds an abiding interest in what we now call "consciousness" which she attributes to …
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“She erected schools, and founded several societies”: Reimagining Margaret Cavendish’s Visit to The Royal Society
In academic discourse, Margaret Cavendish’s attendance at a meeting of the Royal Society on May 30, 1667 is often cited as proof that she was deeply hostile towards early scientific experimentalism. While some scholars have noted the disdain with which the Society supposedly viewed Cavendish, …
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Radioactivists: community, controversy and the rise of nuclear physics
… War. The election of Ernest Rutherford to the Cavendish Chair of Experimental Physics at Cambridge in 1919 brought radioactivity research, and a programme of Imperial physics, to the Cavendish Laboratory. Rutherford’s programme of research, based on his speculative nuclear model of the atom …
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Lived Experiences Of Primary And Secondary Teachers At One State-Approved Private Special Education School In Connecticut Regarding Disparities Among Racially And Ethnically Diverse Students In Special Education
… or learning disorders in special education (Cavendish et al., 2018; Jackson et al., 2016; Leung, 2021; Lhamon et al., 2019; Skrtic et al., 2021). The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of primary and secondary teachers at one state-approved private special education …
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The Rhetoric of Distance: Symbolic Capital and Women's Textual Practices in Seventeenth-Century England
… some women writers, Aemelia Lanyer, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips in particular, participated in a more competitive narrative; a narrative which privileged such categories as nobility, status, and rank. The nascent discourse of class division and distinction plays a crucial role in …
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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… by the literary activities of Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn. While Cavendish exploits her position as noblewoman and royalist exile to praise the virtues of the contemplative life, she also insists on publication as a fitting proof of virtue for male and female authors alike. Behn, …
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Low temperature studies of transport in silicon MOSFETs.
… work in the semiconductor Physics group at the Cavendish Laboratory, during which time I was financially _supported by the Science and Engineering Research Council. Many thanks are due to my supervisor, Mike Pepper, for his advice and enthusiastic encouragement. I would also like to warmly thank …
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Designing a beam combiner for faint limiting magnitudes in optical interferometry
… during my PhD in the astrophysics group of the Cavendish Laboratory. The majority of this work has been to develop the Free-space Optical multi-apertUre combineR for IntERferometry (FOURIER), a novel, high sensitivity, near-infrared beam combiner intended to be the first generation science beam …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
… wider social groupings in the work of Margaret Cavendish, Sophie de Grouchy, Gabrielle Suchon, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other women of the early modern period in Europe. From these disparate sources—Cavendish’s vitalist metaphysics, Suchon’s practical ethics, Wollstonecraft’s polemical …
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Anvil of Ceres: The Foundry at Waller Creek
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Out Of Compass: English Women’s Writing And The Cultures Of Travel, 1604-1680
… writings of Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and a traveling Quaker minister, Alice Curwen, to demonstrate that while women were certainly aware of the social stigma that could be attached to their travels, they also understood that women’s travel was necessary to social, political, …
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No "Idle Fancy:" The Imagination's Work in Poetry and Natural Philosophy from Sidney to Sprat
… as powerful then as it does now. For Margaret Cavendish, the poet occupies the supplemental role that "recreate[s] the mind" once it grows tired of the "serious" natural philosophical studies. After the Restoration, then, the important role of the poetic imagination would go largely …
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