1. Barbara M. Benedict, Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 110.
2. See John Mullan, ‘Swift, Defoe, and Narrative Forms’, in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740, ed. Steven N. Zwicker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 250–75 (pp. 251–53).
3. See esp. Marjorie Nicolson, ‘The Microscope and English Imagination’, in Science and Imagination (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956), pp. 155–234 (pp. 194–99),
4. and Frederick N. Smith, ‘Scientific Discourse: Gulliver’s Travels and The Philosophical Transactions’, in The Genres of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, ed. Smith (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990), pp. 139–62 (pp. 140–43).
5. The Humble Petition of the Colliers (1716), and God’s Revenge Against Punning (1716), both republished in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Pope, Swift and Gay (1727–32), ed. Alexander Pettit, 4 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2002), IV, 72–78, 53–56. See esp. Marjorie Hope Nicolson and G. S. Rousseau, ‘This Long Disease, My Life’: Alexander Pope and the Sciences (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968), pp. 156–66, 178–87,