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Introduction Notes Introduction 1. Abraham Cowley, ‘To the Royal Society’, ll. 41–46, quoted in Francis Bacon, The Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (London: Knapton, 1691), sig. A3v. Swift owned this edition (see LRJS, I, 125–26). On the Miltonic parallels, see Robert B. Hinman, Abraham Cowley’s World of Order (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960), pp. 189–90. 2. See, for instance, Richard G. Olson, ‘Tory-High Church Opposition to Science and Scientism in the Eighteenth Century: The Works of John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson’, in The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton, ed. John G. Burke (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), pp. 171–204. 3. Cowley, ‘To the Royal Society’, l. 59. See Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620), ‘Plan of the Work’, sig. B4v, in The Instauratio magna Part II: Novum organum and Associated Texts, ed. and trans. Graham Rees with Maria Wakely (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), p. 33. 4. See Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626–1660 (London: Duckworth, 1975), esp. p. 96. 5. See John R. R. Christie, ‘Laputa Revisited’, in Nature Transfigured: Science and Literature, 1700–1900, eds Christie and Sally Shuttleworth (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989), pp. 45–60, and Brian Vickers, ‘Swift and the Baconian Idol’, in The World of Jonathan Swift: Essays for the Tercentenary, ed. B. Vickers (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968), pp. 87–128. There has been general disagreement, however, with Vickers’s argument that ‘Bacon stood for many things that Swift detested’, and that Swift’s allusions were intended to mock Bacon. See especially Irvin Ehrenpreis, ‘The Doctrine of A Tale of a Tub’, in Proceedings of the First Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, eds Hermann J. Real and Heinz J. Vienken (München: Fink, 1985), pp. 59–71 (p. 62n12). 6. Hermann J. Real, ‘The “Keen Appetite for Perpetuity of Life” Abated: The Struldbruggs, Again’, in Fiktion und Geschichte in der anglo-amerikanischen Literatur: Festschrift fur Heinz-Joachim Mullenbrock zum 60. Geburtstag, eds Rudiger Ahrens and Fritz Wilhelm Neumann (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1998), pp. 117–35 (pp. 121–23), and the same author’s ‘The Dean and the Lord Chancellor: Or, Swift Saving his Bacon’, in Britannien und Europa: Studien zur Literatur-, Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte. Festschrift für Jürgen Klein, ed. Michael Szczekalla (Frankfurt: Lang, 2010), pp. 95–111. See also Irvin Ehrenpreis, ‘Jonathan Swift: Lecture on a Master Mind’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 54 (1968), 149–64 (p. 153), and John Shanahan, ‘“In the Mean Time”: Jonathan Swift, Francis Bacon, and Georgic Struggle’, in Swift as Priest and Satirist, ed. Todd C. Parker (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009), pp. 193–214. 7. Donald Greene, ‘Swift: Some Caveats’, in Studies in the Eighteenth Century II: Papers Presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar Canberra 1970, ed. R. F. Brissenden (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1973), pp. 341–58 (esp. p. 355). 148 Notes 149 8. ‘Ode to the Honble Sir William Temple’, l. 38, and ‘Ode to the Athenian Society’, ll. 211, 213 (Poems, I, 27, 22). See Cowley, ‘To Mr. Hobs’, ll. 1–3, in Poems (London, 1656), p. 26. Swift owned this edition of Cowley: see LRJS, I, 475. 9. John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Cork and Orrery, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, ed. João Fróes (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000), p. 184 (Letter XII). 10. Bacon, Novum Organum, ‘Plan of the Work’, sig. B6v, in The Instauratio magna Part II, p. 37, and Tale, p. 151. 11. See esp. Joseph M. Levine, Dr. Woodward’s Shield: History, Science, and Satire in Augustan England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), and Steven Shapin, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), pp. 142–81. 12. See Tale, pp. 83–84, 403–404. 13. See Karina Williamson, ‘“Science” and “knowledge” in Eighteenth-century Britain’, Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 303 (1992), 455–58 (p. 456). 14. An Essay on Man, Epistle I, ll. 99–104, in TE, III i,27. 15. See C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (The Rede Lecture) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959), Judith Hawley, ‘General Introduction’, in Literature and Science, 1660–1834, gen. ed. J. Hawley, 8 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003–2004), I, xi–xvii (p. xii), and G. S. Rousseau, ‘The Discourses of Literature and Science (2)’, in Enlightenment Borders: Pre- and Post-modern Discourses: Medical, Scientific (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991), pp. 213–35 (pp. 217–18). 16. L. J. Jordanova, ‘Introduction’, in Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature, ed. Jordanova (London: Free Association Books, 1986), pp. 15–47 (p. 16), and John Christie and Sally Shuttleworth, ‘Introduction: Between Literature and Science’, in Nature Transfigured, pp. 1–12 (esp. p. 2). 17. See A. C. Elias, Jr, Swift at Moor Park: Problems in Biography and Criticism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982). 18. ‘An Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning’, in Five Miscellaneous Essays by Sir William Temple, ed. Samuel Holt Monk (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963), pp. 56–57. 19. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Peter H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), p. 645 (Book IV, Chap. XII, 10). 20. See Douglas Lane Patey, ‘Swift’s Satire on “Science” and the Structure of Gulliver’s Travels’, ELH, 58 (1991), 809–39 (pp. 823–24), Kathleen Williams, Jonathan Swift and the Age of Compromise (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1958), esp. pp. 49–59, J. T. Parnell, ‘Swift, Sterne, and the Skeptical Tradition’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 23 (1994), 221–42, and Marcus Walsh, ‘Swift and Religion’, in The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift, ed. Christopher Fox (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 161–76. 21. See I Corinthians 2.5. 22. Temple, ‘Some Thoughts upon Reviewing the Essay of Ancient and Modern Learning’, in Five Miscellaneous Essays, p. 96. 150 Notes 23. See Hermann J. Real and Heinz J. Vienken, ‘“I Knew and Could Distinguish Those Two Heroes at First Sight”: Homer and Aristotle in Glubbdubdrib’, Notes & Queries, 231 (n.s. 33) (1986), 51–53. 24. John Conduitt, ‘Rough Draft Preface for the Life of Newton’, in King’s College Library, Cambridge, Keynes MS. 130.17, f. 4, in NP; Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal-Society of London, For the Improving of Natural Knowledge (London, 1667), p. 112. 25. See Gregory Lynall, ‘“An Author bonæ notæ, and an Adeptus”: Swift’s Alchemical Satire and Satiric Alchemy in A Tale of a Tub’, Swift Studies, 24 (2009), 29–45 (pp. 42–43). 26. Roger D. Lund, ‘The Eel of Science: Index Learning, Scriblerian Satire, and the Rise of Information Culture’, Eighteenth-Century Life, 22 (1998), 18–42 (p. 39). 27. Brean Hammond, ‘Scriblerian Self-Fashioning’, Yearbook of English Studies, 18 (1988), 108–22 (p. 118). 28. George Levine, ‘One Culture: Science and Literature’, in One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature, ed. G. Levine (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1987), pp. 3–32 (p. 8). 29. Steven Shapin, ‘Of Gods and Kings: Natural Philosophy and Politics in the Leibniz-Clarke Disputes’, Isis, 72 (1981), 187–215, Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660–1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. xvi, and Simon Schaffer, ‘Augustan Realities: Nature’s Representatives and their Cultural Resources in the Early Eighteenth Century’, in Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature and Culture, ed. George Levine (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), pp. 279–318. 30. See Memoirs, ed. Kerby-Miller, pp. 60–65. 31. See G. S. Rousseau, ‘Science Books and their Readership in the High Enlightenment’, in Enlightenment Borders, pp. 264–324 (p. 282). 32. See Anita Guerrini, ‘The Tory Newtonians: Gregory, Pitcairne, and their Circle’, Journal of British Studies, 25 (1986), 288–311, and Peter Anstey, ‘Literary Responses to Robert Boyle’s Natural Philosophy’, in Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England, eds Juliet Cummins and David Burchell (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 145–62 (pp. 161–62). 33. The Spectator, Nos. 393 and 77, in The Spectator, ed. Donald F. Bond, 5 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), III, 475, and I, 330. See also Nos. 420 and 565 (III, 574–75, and IV, 529–33), and Gregory Lynall, ‘John Gay, Magnetism, and the Spectacle of Natural Philosophy: Scriblerian Pins and Needles’, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 30 (2007), 389–403. 34. The Examiner, 14 (9 November 1710), in PW, III, 10–11. See Pope to Arbuthnot, 17 July 1734, 26 July 1734, 2 August 1734, 25 August 1734, in The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn, 5 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), III, 417, 419, 423, 428. 35. Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth- Century England (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 42, 93–94. 36. Phillip Harth, Swift and Anglican Rationalism: The Religious Background of ‘A Tale of a Tub’ (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1961), pp. 59–68, Notes 151 Christie, ‘Laputa Revisited’, pp. 49–50, and Lynall, ‘“An Author bonæ notæ, and an Adeptus”’, p. 32. 37. Thomas Sheridan (the younger), The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift (London, 1784), pp. 9–10. 38. Marjorie Nicolson and Nora M. Mohler, ‘The Scientific Background of Swift’s Voyage to Laputa’ and ‘Swift’s “Flying Island” in the Voyage to Laputa’, Annals of Science, 2 (1937), 299–334, 405–30, and Frederick N.
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