The literary structure of scientific argument : historical studies

Dear, Peter, 1958- (Added Author).

Summary: 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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ISBN: 9780812281859
ISBN: 0812281853
ISBN: 9781512801590
ISBN: 9780585126685
ISBN: 1512801593
ISBN: 0585126682
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, �1991.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	J.C. Reil and the "Journalization" of physiology / Thomas H. Broman -- Writing zoologically : the Zeitschrift f�ur 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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.