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Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society : a sourcebook /
This volume is a sourcebook for those interested in how the experimentalists of the seventeenth century profoundly shaped modern scholarly communication.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Scholarly communication ;
volume 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society:A Sourcebook; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Sources; Introduction; PART 1: Theoretical Perspectives; 1 Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society; 2 Rhetoric in the Early Royal Society; 3 Language Reform in the Late Seventeenth Century; 4 Argument and 17th-Century Science: A Rhetorical Analysis with Sociological Implications; PART 2: Case Studies; 5 Invitation and Engagement: Ideology and Wilkins's Philosophical Language.
- 6 "The Spirit of Invention": Hooke's Poetics for a New Science in An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth by Observation7 The Looking Glass of Facts: Collecting, Rhetoric and Citing the Self in the Experimental Natural Philosophy of Robert Boyle; 8 Science versus Rhetoric?: Sprat's History of the Royal Society Reconsidered; Further Reading; Index.