Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society : : a sourcebook / / edited by Tina Skouen and Ryan J. Stark.

• Superior document: Scholarly Communication, Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Skouen, Tina,; Stark, Ryan J.,
• 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.

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 the history of rhetoric and science. In the last twenty years, scholars in numerous disciplines have produced significant work, ranging from theoretical essays to case studies of founding members such as Wilkins, Hooke and Boyle. This is the first book to collect in one volume the key contributions. The newly written introduction by editors Skouen and Stark places the reprinted essays into perspective by evaluating the Society’s pioneering role in shaping modern scholarly communication.

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.