| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 292 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Writing science
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Writing science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-286) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Varieties of Things: Objects of Knowledge and Baconian -- Method in the Early Royal Society of London -- Text, Skill, and Experience in John Evelyn's Sylva -- Similitudes and Congruities: The Mechanical Philosophy, -- Practical Mechanics, and Baconian Analogy in Hooke's -- Micrographia -- 4 A Language of Things: John Wilkins' Philosophical -- Language and Operative Forms -- 5 Disarming Words for a Land of Experimental Knowledge: -- Sprat's History of the Royal Society -- 6 Preserving the Subject in Peace and Plenty: John Graunt's -- Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of -- Mortality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. |
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Royal Society (Great Britain)
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Royal Society (Great Britain) |
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Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans, 1561-1626. |
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Royal Society. |
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Science -- history. |
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Science -- methods. |
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Societies, Scientific -- history. |
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United Kingdom. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lynch, William, 1965- Solomon's child. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2001 0804732914 (DLC) 2001041086 (OCoLC)47092070 |
| ISBN |
0585457816 (electronic book) |
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9780585457819 (electronic book) |
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0804732914 (acid-free paper) |
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