A bastard kind of reasoning: William Blake and geometry

Abstract

"Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction: Geometry and Blake's Newton print -- Chapter 1. "Oh, but you're just analogizing..." -- Chapter 2. Learning to read in a force field: Songs of Innocence, Hartleyan psychology, and the physics of R.J. Boscovich -- Chapter 3. The Book of Urizen as a vortex of perception -- Chapter 4. A brief particular history of the fourth dimension of space, with special reference to Milton: A Poem -- Chapter 5. The Neoplatonism of Blake's mundane soul -- Chapter 6. Berkeley: very close, but no cigar -- Conclusion: The unified space-time of The Vision of the Last Judgment.