Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society : : a sourcebook / / edited by Tina Skouen and Ryan J. Stark.
The Royal Society’s establishment in 1660 signaled a new beginning for the rhetoric of science, mainly because the organization’s founders advocated a modern plain style for scientific communication. Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society aims to initiate fresh debates about this watershed event in th...
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| Superior document: | Scholarly Communication, Volume 3 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scholarly communication ;
Volume 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.