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UNINA9910463624903321 |
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Titolo |
Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society : a sourcebook / / edited by Tina Skouen and Ryan J. Stark |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : BRILL, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Collana |
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Scholarly Communication, , 1879-9027 ; ; Volume 3 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Rhetoric |
English language - 18th century - Rhetoric |
Literature and science - Great Britain - History |
English philology |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material / Tina Skouen and Ryan J. Stark -- Introduction / Tina Skouen and Ryan J. Stark -- Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society / Peter Dear -- Rhetoric in the Early Royal Society / Richard Nate -- Language Reform in the Late Seventeenth Century / Ryan J. Stark -- Argument and 17th-Century Science: A Rhetorical Analysis with Sociological Implications / Alan G. Gross , Joseph E. Harmon and Michael S. Reidy -- Invitation and Engagement: Ideology and Wilkins’s Philosophical Language / Robert E. Stillman -- “The Spirit of Invention”: Hooke’s Poetics for a New Science in An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth by Observation / Frédérique Aït-Touati -- The Looking Glass of Facts: Collecting, Rhetoric and Citing the Self in the Experimental Natural Philosophy of Robert Boyle / Michael Wintroub -- Science versus Rhetoric?: Sprat’s History of the Royal Society Reconsidered / Tina Skouen -- Further Reading / Tina Skouen and Ryan J. Stark -- Index / Tina Skouen and Ryan J. Stark. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Royal Society’s establishment in 1660 signaled a new beginning for the rhetoric of science, mainly because the organization’s founders |
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