Margaret Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the picture of nature as a grand machine that was propounded by ...

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: Poems and Fancies with The Animal Parliament ... She then engages with theories on moral and political philosophy in part two; the “science” of the mind in ...

One key contributor who had the audacity to tangle with her contemporaries, Hobbes and Descartes, was Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Decades before Isaac Newton published his pioneering ...