CHAPTER III. This Vast Sublunar Vault

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS x
5. INTRODUCTION The Major Problems 1
6. CHAPTER I. The Compendious Method of Natural Philosophy: Milton and the Encyclopedic Tradition 9
7. CHAPTER II. The Harmony of the Spheres: Milton’s World Picture 43
8. CHAPTER III. This Vast Sublunar Vault 86
9. CHAPTER IV. The Secret Powers of Stones and Plants 114
10. CHAPTER V. All the Beasts of the Earth: The Animal Kingdom in Milton 137
11. CHAPTER VI. The Structure and Surgery of the Human Body 174
12. CHAPTER VII. Precepts of Beneficence in Prose 211
13. CHAPTER VIII. Natural Philosophy and Paradise Lost 225
14. Notes 249
15. Index 289