Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society : a sourcebook / edited by Tina Skouen and Ryan J. Stark.
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TextSeries: Scholarly communication ; volume 3.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- Royal Society (Great Britain) -- History
- Royal Society (Great Britain)
- English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
- English language -- 18th century -- Rhetoric
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History
- English philology
- Anglais (Langue) -- 1500-1700 (Moderne) -- Rhétorique
- Anglais (Langue) -- 18e siècle -- Rhétorique
- Littérature et sciences -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
- Philologie anglaise
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
- REFERENCE -- Writing Skills
- English language -- Early modern -- Rhetoric
- English language -- Rhetoric
- English philology
- Literature and science
- Great Britain
- 1700-1799
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- PE1083 .R38 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
This volume is a sourcebook for those interested in how the experimentalists of the seventeenth century profoundly shaped modern scholarly communication.
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