The History of Metaphors of Nature: Science and Literature from Homer to Al Gore, Tập 2Edwin Mellen Press, 2006 - 925 trang This book shows how modern European Languages have a large number of metaphors which represent the whole of nature. Metaphors used in natural science and literature, such as Mother Nature, have a powerful influence on the framing of scientific hypothesis making, and these words have guided the history of natural science for several millennia, while also influencing North American nature writing. |
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... Sumerian mythologies were retelling Sumerian tales until the Christianization of the Roman Empire , 2500 years after the earliest Sumerian writing . The Sumerians believed that each thing existed by the speaking of sacred words of Enki ...
... Sumerian mythologies were retelling Sumerian tales until the Christianization of the Roman Empire , 2500 years after the earliest Sumerian writing . The Sumerians believed that each thing existed by the speaking of sacred words of Enki ...
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... Sumerian Gods lived in the chaos with the monsters . The gods were a noisy lot , and spent all their time drinking and singing loudly . This irritated Tiamat and Apsu so they plotted with Mummu , their messenger god , to kill all the ...
... Sumerian Gods lived in the chaos with the monsters . The gods were a noisy lot , and spent all their time drinking and singing loudly . This irritated Tiamat and Apsu so they plotted with Mummu , their messenger god , to kill all the ...
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... Sumerian tale , for edin is Sumerian for “ plain ” and Sumer is east of Canaan . God placed a man in this garden . “ Adam ” just means “ man ” in ancient Hebrew , but it is derived from the even more ancient Semitic word for " clay ...
... Sumerian tale , for edin is Sumerian for “ plain ” and Sumer is east of Canaan . God placed a man in this garden . “ Adam ” just means “ man ” in ancient Hebrew , but it is derived from the even more ancient Semitic word for " clay ...
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Ahura Mazda alchemy ancient Angra Mainyu animals Aristotle astronomical Averroes became believed book of nature Burroughs called Cavendish century Christian conservation Copernicus created creation creator culture Darwin developed dynamic equilibrium early earth Emerson Encyclopedia environmental European evolution example famous flow flux of nature flux trope forest fossils founder geological Glacken globe goddess gods Greek heaven Hebrew Heraclitus human Hutton Huxley hydrologic cycle idea important intellectual interesting James Hutton Jewish John King land language lived magic Medieval metaphor modern moon mountains Muir myths natural science nature writer notion ocean pagan philosopher planet Plato poem poet popular Project Gutenberg Ptolemy published rain religion religious Renaissance rivers rocks Roman Empire Saint Sarton scientific scientists seems soil sphere spirit stars story stream Sumerian Taton theory things Thoreau Thorndike thought tree trope word writing written wrote Yggdrasil York