The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument

by Dear, Peter Robert

• ISBN13: 9780812281859
• ISBN10: 0812281853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Genre and Discipline	p. 11
J. C. Reil and the "Journalization" of Physiology	p. 13
Writing Zoologically: the Zeitschrift Für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie and the Zoological Community in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany	p. 43
Rigorous Discipline: Oliver Heaviside Versus the Mathematicians	p. 72
Discipline and Epistemology	p. 97
Setting the Table: the Disciplinary Development of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as Read Through the Changing Structure of Its Tables	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Conclusion	p. 131
Textual Generation of Knowledge	p. 133
Narratives, Anecdotes, and Experiments: Turning Experience into Science in the Seventeenth Century	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
Argument and Narrative in Scientific Writing	p. 164
Eighteenth-Century Medical Education and the Didactic Model of Experiment	p. 182
Selected Bibliography	p. 195
Contributors	p. 201
Index	p. 203
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