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Dissertation: Rhetorical Construction of the Experimental Philosopher - Paul Ferguson - 10-24-2023
Jennifer O'Meara.
ALCHEMISTS, EPICS, AND HEROES: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHER
"This dissertation contributes to the cultural study of the history of science by examining the rhetorical construction of seventeenth century natural
philosophy and natural philosophers in a literary context. I offer as the heart of my study an original interpretation of Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society
as a prose epic...The chapters surrounding my reading of the History illustrate two very different rhetorical strategies that were used to explain and legitimize the character of the new experimentalist. The first strategy attempted to use comparisons and contrasts between the experimentalist and the alchemist."
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/158304481.pdf