A study of early modern colonialism and scientific culture of the 17th century, focusing on how the period's literature, like utopianism, and how it is seen as a division between natural science and the humanities, but how that link can be traced to a fusion of Renaissance thinking. European expansion and New World exploration created textual differences between scientific factual writing, and that of fictional literature. Albanese argues that scientific writing like that of Galileo and Copernicus had to be guised as hypothetical and fiction to avoid Church censorship, but is the creation of such scientifically factual texts. This book is not the most assessable because of its trans-disciplinary approach. Therefore it is not the most important book dealing with the cultural formation of scientific literature or fictional literature in the 17th century. It would serve a better...