William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton’s Sleep: A History of Science, Poetry, and Progress

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role of poiesis and imagination play in our understanding of science and of progress is widely explored in this book through taking an eclectic approach to arguing for the reestablishment of imagination as a central attribute of science to resolve our most pressing ecological problems.

Keith G. Davies is an associate professor based at the University of Hertfordshire, where he teaches the science of crop protection and plant pathology. Dr Davies has published widely on crop protection in over 80 refereed articles and book chapters and has also been actively involved in public engagement with science. This is his first book that brings together his scientific concerns with his broader cultural and philosophic interests around the relationship between science, the humanities and the nature of progress.