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Locke's Essay and The Rhetoric of Science
Peter Walmsley
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Hardback. This book shows how, in his enormously influential Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natural philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
This book shows how, in his enormously influential Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natural philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. With the help of Locke's notebooks, letters, and journals, Peter Walmsley reconstructs Locke's scientific career, including his early work with the chemist Robert Boyle and the physician Thomas Sydenham. He demonstrates too how the Essay embodies in its form and language many of the preoccupations of the science of its day, from the emerging discourses of experimentation and empirical ... Read more
This book shows how, in his enormously influential Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natural philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. With the help of Locke's notebooks, letters, and journals, Peter Walmsley reconstructs Locke's scientific career, including his early work with the chemist Robert Boyle and the physician Thomas Sydenham. He demonstrates too how the Essay embodies in its form and language many of the preoccupations of the science of its day, from the emerging discourses of experimentation and empirical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481822
SKU
V9781611481822
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About Peter Walmsley
Peter Walmsley is an Associate Professor of English at McMaster University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy (1990) and of essays on Locke, Berkeley, Pope, and Elizabeth Hamilton. He is currently working on the cadaver in the English Enlightenment from Joseph Addison to Ann Radcliffe.
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