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The literary structure of scientific argument : historical studies /

In this volume, seven historians of science examine the historical creation and meaning of a range of scientific textual forms from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. They consider examples from the fields of chemistry, medicine, physics, zoology, physiology, and mathematics, exposing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dear, Peter, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1991.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • J.C. Reil and the "Journalization" of physiology / Thomas H. Broman
  • Writing zoologically : the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche zoologie and the zoological community in late nineteenth-century Germany / Lynn K. Nyhart
  • Rigorous discipline : Oliver Heaviside versus the mathematicians / Bruce J. Hunt
  • Setting the table : the disciplinary development of eighteenth-century chemistry as read through the changing structures of its tables / Lissa Roberts
  • Narratives, anecdotes, and experiments : turning experience into science in the seventeenth century / Peter Dear
  • Argument and narrative in scientific writing / Frederic L. Holmes
  • Eighteenth-century medical education and the didactic model of experiment / Lisa Rosner.