SOURCE: "Annus Mirabilis and the Ideology of the New Science," in ELH, Vol. 57, No. 2, Summer 1990, pp. 307-34.
In the following excerpt, Burke contends that in Annus Mirabilis, Dryden glorifies the "new" or practical science of his era and in the process, anticipates the advent of the more "materialistic" and "republican" enlightenment that was to dominate the final half of the eighteenth century.
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