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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... ( Taton , 1963 , v . 2 , p . 514 ) . Linnaeus was also convinced that the earth was well designed by God as a habitat for mankind ( Glacken , 1967 , p . 510 ) . During the Enlightenment , new and somewhat more reasonable ( by modern ...
... ( Taton , 1963 , v . 2 , p . 514 ) . Linnaeus was also convinced that the earth was well designed by God as a habitat for mankind ( Glacken , 1967 , p . 510 ) . During the Enlightenment , new and somewhat more reasonable ( by modern ...
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... ( Taton , 1963 , v . 1 , p . 193 ) . This image stuck in the western mind and was a great impediment to further progress in astronomy from our modern point of view . Xenophanes of Colophon ( f . 540 ) was not in Thales ' school , but he ...
... ( Taton , 1963 , v . 1 , p . 193 ) . This image stuck in the western mind and was a great impediment to further progress in astronomy from our modern point of view . Xenophanes of Colophon ( f . 540 ) was not in Thales ' school , but he ...
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... Taton , 1963 , v . 1 , p . 192 ) . Anaxagoras of Clazomenae , in lonia ( c . 500 - 428 BCE ) was a pupil of Thales ' school and he may have taught Socrates . Anaxagoras maintained that the earth was a disk , and believed that the moon ...
... Taton , 1963 , v . 1 , p . 192 ) . Anaxagoras of Clazomenae , in lonia ( c . 500 - 428 BCE ) was a pupil of Thales ' school and he may have taught Socrates . Anaxagoras maintained that the earth was a disk , and believed that the moon ...
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