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
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2015
• מהדורה: 1st ed.
• שפה: English
• סדרה: Scholarly communication ; Volume 3.
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• הערות: 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 th...

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.