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  1. The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument
    Historical Studies
    Published: [2015]; © 1991
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

    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,... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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 the rich possibilities for a new, historically rooted approach to our scientific cultural heritage.Peter Dear presents the case for "taking texts seriously"—asking historians of science to confront issues and techniques moving to the forefront in a number of disciplines, and asking literary scholars and literary-minded intellectual historians not to "put science quietly to one side," or treat it as a mere source of cultural metaphors, but to understand it in terms of historically specific textual construction.The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument will interest historians, philosophers, and sociologists, as well as literary scholars concerned with science

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781512801590
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    Subjects: General Interest; Natural Sciences; Textbooks, Reference Books Natural Sciences; Geschichte; Naturwissenschaft; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Science; Science; Technical writing; Literaturproduktion; Naturwissenschaften; Wissenschaft; Geschichte; Fachliteratur
    Scope: 1 online resource, 6 illus
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  2. The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument
    Historical Studies
    Published: [2015]; © 1991
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

    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,... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    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 the rich possibilities for a new, historically rooted approach to our scientific cultural heritage.Peter Dear presents the case for "taking texts seriously"—asking historians of science to confront issues and techniques moving to the forefront in a number of disciplines, and asking literary scholars and literary-minded intellectual historians not to "put science quietly to one side," or treat it as a mere source of cultural metaphors, but to understand it in terms of historically specific textual construction.The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument will interest historians, philosophers, and sociologists, as well as literary scholars concerned with science

     

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    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781512801590
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: General Interest; Natural Sciences; Textbooks, Reference Books Natural Sciences; Geschichte; Naturwissenschaft; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Science; Science; Technical writing; Literaturproduktion; Naturwissenschaften; Wissenschaft; Geschichte; Fachliteratur
    Scope: 1 online resource, 6 illus
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)