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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... thought that some great god had created the world . It is notoriously hard to be sure what Heraclitos really believed because he despised all cosmology and so his cosmological writing was perhaps ironic . It seems sure that he believed ...
... thought that some great god had created the world . It is notoriously hard to be sure what Heraclitos really believed because he despised all cosmology and so his cosmological writing was perhaps ironic . It seems sure that he believed ...
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... thought that the black plague was a new kind of disease , and he imagined that other new things could occur , especially in plants and inanimate beings . Thus , half a millennium before Darwin , the last of the Medieval encyclopedists ...
... thought that the black plague was a new kind of disease , and he imagined that other new things could occur , especially in plants and inanimate beings . Thus , half a millennium before Darwin , the last of the Medieval encyclopedists ...
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... thought that the sun was one - eighth the diameter of the earth . He used Pythagorean number mysticism to try to compute the distances between the planets . Plato thought the edge of the universe was 18 earth diameters from the earth ...
... thought that the sun was one - eighth the diameter of the earth . He used Pythagorean number mysticism to try to compute the distances between the planets . Plato thought the edge of the universe was 18 earth diameters from the earth ...
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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