Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and LiteratureL. J. Jordanova |
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... scientific revolution , eighteenth- century authors could take for granted a certain optimism about the potential of scientific thought , which indicates the status attached to the names of Isaac Newton and John Locke in particular ...
... scientific revolution , eighteenth- century authors could take for granted a certain optimism about the potential of scientific thought , which indicates the status attached to the names of Isaac Newton and John Locke in particular ...
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... 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 late eight- eenth century and the first half of the ...
... 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 late eight- eenth century and the first half of the ...
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... scientific doctrine the means ' ( Lewes , 1853 , 9 ) . Turning from traditional orthodox religion , Eliot found her ... scientific law did not simply arise from a loss of religi- ous faith : it represented a direct response to ...
... scientific doctrine the means ' ( Lewes , 1853 , 9 ) . Turning from traditional orthodox religion , Eliot found her ... scientific law did not simply arise from a loss of religi- ous faith : it represented a direct response to ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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