Persuading science : the art of scientific rhetoric / Marcello Pera and William R. Shea, editors.
- Date:
- 1991
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Canton, MA : Science History Publications, U.S.A, 1991.
Physical description
xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Notes
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Blackwell N.A
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographic references and index
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineAAB /PEROpen shelves