Rhetoric and Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and Literary Context, Oplag 3Voltaire Foundation, 2001 - 214 sider This book examines the rhetorical dimension of eighteenth-century natural history. It focuses on the French naturalist and literary stylist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, author of the bestselling multi-volume Histoire naturelle (1749-1789). Natural history as Buffon and his contemporaries knew it remains a fascinating object of study for its breadth, its cultural openness, and its disorderly energy. Rhetoric here is understood as a set of techniques for attracting and persuading an audience. As a contribution both to literary studies and to the history of science, Rhetoric and natural history adds to our understanding of the intellectual culture of the French Enlightenment. |
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... Histoire et théorie de la terre . Along with his ' system ' of reproduction via organic molecules and the Epoques de la nature , the Histoire et théorie was seen as a notorious example of systematising , even though it features Buffon's ...
... Histoire et théorie de la terre . Along with his ' system ' of reproduction via organic molecules and the Epoques de la nature , the Histoire et théorie was seen as a notorious example of systematising , even though it features Buffon's ...
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... history to theories and understand the essence of Buffon's dichotomy . For though never linked explicitly with theories and systems , there are many remarks on method in the Histoire et théorie and the ' Premier discours ' that clarify ...
... history to theories and understand the essence of Buffon's dichotomy . For though never linked explicitly with theories and systems , there are many remarks on method in the Histoire et théorie and the ' Premier discours ' that clarify ...
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... theories , as he did a number of less sweeping conjectures scattered throughout the Histoire et théorie . Like many eighteenth - century natural philosophers , he obviously wanted to forestall accusations of systematising by labelling ...
... theories , as he did a number of less sweeping conjectures scattered throughout the Histoire et théorie . Like many eighteenth - century natural philosophers , he obviously wanted to forestall accusations of systematising by labelling ...
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