Book ID: CBB000044262

Pretexts of authority: The rhetoric of authorship in the Renaissance preface (1994)

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Dunn, Kevin (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xii + 198 pp.; notes; index

Description Part II: “Prefatory method in the new science”, contains the following chapters: “A great city is a great solitude”: Descartes's urban pastoral; An introduction into nature's inner courts: Empire and institution in Bacon's prefatory method; From Instauration to Restoration: Hobbes, Sprat, Dryden, and the politics of common sense.


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Authors & Contributors
Barnouw, Jeffrey
Wood, P. B.
Weiss, Ulrich
Szczekalla, Michael
Spallanzani, Mariafranca
Snider, Alvin
Concepts
Science
Classification of knowledge
Linguistic or semantic analysis
Utopias
Rhetoric in scientific discourse
Metaphors; analogies
Time Periods
17th century
Places
British Isles
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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