Novelties in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy

by Jean Dietz Moss

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In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well--one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain scientific thought, became a tool for persuading a skeptical public of the superiority of the Copernican system.

Moss describes the nature of dialectical and rhetorical discourse in the period of the Copernican debate to shed new light on the argumentative...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226542351

ISBN13:9780226542355

Release Date:March 1993

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.09 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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