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Fiction and Science: A Plausible World in the Early Modern Period Through the Writings of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish

Abstract

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<p>Exploring the use of fiction—and science fiction—as an opportunity for "Scientific Outsiders" to present their knowledge and questions about the natural world by analyzing the themes presented in Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.</p>

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
History, MA
Level thesis:degree_level
Open Access Master's Thesis
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
School of Arts and Humanities
Year dc:date.available
2020

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Macleod, Robert Wilson
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Gideon Manning

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/612
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1634

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Last updated
2026-07-24
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citation

Macleod, Robert Wilson. Fiction and Science: A Plausible World in the Early Modern Period Through the Writings of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish. Open Access Master's Thesis thesis, 2020. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/612