Persuading science : the art of scientific rhetoric / Marcello Pera and William R. Shea, editors.

Date:
1991
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Publication/Creation

Canton, MA : Science History Publications, U.S.A, 1991.

Physical description

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents

Science and persuasion. Persuasion / Philip Kitcher -- The role and value of rhetoric in science / Marcello Pera -- Rhetoric and theory choice in science / Ernan McMullin -- Mnemonical loci and natural loci / Paolo Rossi -- On deciding what to believe and how to talk about nature / Dudley Shapere -- Rhetoric in action. Galileo and Newton : different rhetorical strategies / Richard S. Westfall -- Descartes and the art of persuasion / William R. Shea -- The person-centered rhetoric of seventeenth-century science / Peter Machamer -- The rhetoric of certainty : Newton's method in science and in the interpretation of the Apocalypse / Maurizio Mamiani -- Quanta, relativity, and rhetoric / Gerald Holton.

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Blackwell N.A

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    History of Medicine
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