Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and LiteratureL. J. Jordanova |
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... important test case for the universal applicability of scientific method , as several of the papers in this volume indicate . Closely bound up with debates about scientific method were debates about the nature of language itself . The ...
... important test case for the universal applicability of scientific method , as several of the papers in this volume indicate . Closely bound up with debates about scientific method were debates about the nature of language itself . The ...
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... important in terms of writings about sexuality and reproduction was the development of a more theoretically oriented science of life . This science of life , which Lamarck was to name ' biology ' , focused attention on the whole ...
... important in terms of writings about sexuality and reproduction was the development of a more theoretically oriented science of life . This science of life , which Lamarck was to name ' biology ' , focused attention on the whole ...
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... important issues of the day . The different ways in which Newton was treated in verse were hardly innocent of ... importance of a pro- ject to decode literary devices . The coalescence of categories which McNeil found in Malthus also ...
... important issues of the day . The different ways in which Newton was treated in verse were hardly innocent of ... importance of a pro- ject to decode literary devices . The coalescence of categories which McNeil found in Malthus also ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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