The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument : : Historical Studies / / Peter Dear.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Dear, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 6 illus.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. J. C. Reil and the "Journalization" of Physiology
• 2. Writing Zoologically: The Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie and the Zoological Community in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
• 3. Rigorous Discipline: Oliver Heaviside Versus the Mathematicians
• 4. Setting the Table: The Disciplinary Development of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as Read Through the Changing Structure of Its Tables
• 5. Narratives, Anecdotes, and Experiments: Turning Experience into Science in the Seventeenth Century
• 6. Argument and Narrative in Scientific Writing
• 7. Eighteenth-Century Medical Education and the Didactic Model of Experiment
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index
• Backmatter