The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe by Javier Patiño Loira (review)
The Age of SubTleTy is guided by the fundamental question, “How do the operations of conceits relate to nature’s operations?” (184), and by the key premise that the early modern conceit ( conceptus , concetto , concepto ) took shape in tandem with contemporary shifts in scientific sensibilities. In developing his analy...