Author: Florence Bretelle-Establet
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319784676
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences of such textual divisions. How can historians and philosophers of science approach this diversity, and what is at stake in dealing with it? The book addresses these questions, adopting a specific approach to do so. In order to shed light on the diversity of organizational patterns and rhetorical strategies in scientific texts, and to question the rationale behind the choices made to present such texts in one particular way, it focuses on the issue of text segmentation, offering answers to questions such as: What was the meaning of segmenting texts into paragraphs, chapters, sections and clusters? Was segmentation used to delimit self-contained units, or to mark breaks in the physical appearance of a text in order to aid reading and memorizing, or to cope with the constraints of the material supports? How, in these different settings and in different texts, were pieces and parts made visible?
Pieces and Parts in Scientific Texts
Author: Florence Bretelle-Establet
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319784676
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences of such textual divisions. How can historians and philosophers of science approach this diversity, and what is at stake in dealing with it? The book addresses these questions, adopting a specific approach to do so. In order to shed light on the diversity of organizational patterns and rhetorical strategies in scientific texts, and to question the rationale behind the choices made to present such texts in one particular way, it focuses on the issue of text segmentation, offering answers to questions such as: What was the meaning of segmenting texts into paragraphs, chapters, sections and clusters? Was segmentation used to delimit self-contained units, or to mark breaks in the physical appearance of a text in order to aid reading and memorizing, or to cope with the constraints of the material supports? How, in these different settings and in different texts, were pieces and parts made visible?
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319784676
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences of such textual divisions. How can historians and philosophers of science approach this diversity, and what is at stake in dealing with it? The book addresses these questions, adopting a specific approach to do so. In order to shed light on the diversity of organizational patterns and rhetorical strategies in scientific texts, and to question the rationale behind the choices made to present such texts in one particular way, it focuses on the issue of text segmentation, offering answers to questions such as: What was the meaning of segmenting texts into paragraphs, chapters, sections and clusters? Was segmentation used to delimit self-contained units, or to mark breaks in the physical appearance of a text in order to aid reading and memorizing, or to cope with the constraints of the material supports? How, in these different settings and in different texts, were pieces and parts made visible?
Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs
Author: Henry Leonard Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768
Author: Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317021908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The French entered the Pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a Spanish preserve until British navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid 1760s. France's concerns that Britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed Louis de Bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken in 1766-9. After handing over the colony he had established in the Falkland Islands to Spain, he sailed through the still relatively unknown Straits of Magellan into the poorly charted South Pacific. He made a number of discoveries in the south west, but was too late to discover Tahiti, where Samuel Wallis had preceded him by less than a year. Reports on Bougainville's reception there and on life in the island were to create wide interest and controversy in Europe. He then sailed to the Samoan Islands and on to Vanuatu, as far as the Great Barrier Reef, and north towards New Guinea and the Samoan Islands making a number of discoveries and all the while leaving his name to a number of features, the best known of which are the island of Bougainville and the Bougainvillea flower. He returned home by way of the Dutch East Indies and the Indian Ocean. Although Bougainville published an account of his voyage in 1771, his original journal was published only in 1977; the present volume makes the latter text available for the first time in English translation.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317021908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The French entered the Pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a Spanish preserve until British navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid 1760s. France's concerns that Britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed Louis de Bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken in 1766-9. After handing over the colony he had established in the Falkland Islands to Spain, he sailed through the still relatively unknown Straits of Magellan into the poorly charted South Pacific. He made a number of discoveries in the south west, but was too late to discover Tahiti, where Samuel Wallis had preceded him by less than a year. Reports on Bougainville's reception there and on life in the island were to create wide interest and controversy in Europe. He then sailed to the Samoan Islands and on to Vanuatu, as far as the Great Barrier Reef, and north towards New Guinea and the Samoan Islands making a number of discoveries and all the while leaving his name to a number of features, the best known of which are the island of Bougainville and the Bougainvillea flower. He returned home by way of the Dutch East Indies and the Indian Ocean. Although Bougainville published an account of his voyage in 1771, his original journal was published only in 1977; the present volume makes the latter text available for the first time in English translation.
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Author: Puttick and Simpson (messrs.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Bibliotheca Lavoisieriana
Author: Marco Beretta
Publisher: Librarie Droz
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: Librarie Droz
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ...
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Catalog of the United States Geological Survey
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Library
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Catalog of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description