The History of Metaphors of Nature: Science and Literature from Homer to Al Gore, Tập 1Edwin Mellen Press, 2006 - 925 trang This book shows how modern European Languages have a large number of metaphors which represent the whole of nature. For example, Mother Nature, the celestial harmony, the great chain of being, and the book of nature, are used in natural science and in literature. These and other metaphors have a powerful influence on the framing of scientific hypothesis making, and these words have guided the history of natural science for several millennia. Each chapter in this book is a parallel longitudinal history of a word or phrase which represents the whole of nature, and which has influenced natural science and general literature, and especially North American nature writing. |
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... Medieval Jewish Emanationism 383 Medieval Christian Strings , Knots and Fabric 383 Medieval Muslim Knots and Fabric 387 Renaissance Fabric and Chain in Natural Science 388 The Fabric Trope in Renaissance Literature 393 Renaissance ...
... Medieval Jewish Emanationism 383 Medieval Christian Strings , Knots and Fabric 383 Medieval Muslim Knots and Fabric 387 Renaissance Fabric and Chain in Natural Science 388 The Fabric Trope in Renaissance Literature 393 Renaissance ...
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... Medieval times , and some minor ones continue today . The climax of the period of popularity of Natura narratives is also the time of the first organized witch persecutions . Some scholars assert that the peasant women who were so ...
... Medieval times , and some minor ones continue today . The climax of the period of popularity of Natura narratives is also the time of the first organized witch persecutions . Some scholars assert that the peasant women who were so ...
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... Medieval readers ( perhaps two percent of the population ) could not understand classical music theory . This was actually a boon to Medieval writers , who preferred a holy mystery to clarity . What remained was the Pythagoreanism which ...
... Medieval readers ( perhaps two percent of the population ) could not understand classical music theory . This was actually a boon to Medieval writers , who preferred a holy mystery to clarity . What remained was the Pythagoreanism which ...
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alchemy ancient animals Aristotle associated astrology beauty became believed birds Boyle called celestial chain Christian classical Colin Fletcher created creation culture Curtius dance Darwin death early earth Enlightenment environmental especially European example fabric fate founder Gaia goddess gods Greek harmony Homer human body Hutton idea image of nature important Indo-European influence inspired intellectual interesting James Hutton knots Koenigsberger Latin Leibniz lived Lovejoy machine macrocosm macrocosm and microcosm magic mathematics mechanical Medieval metaphor microcosmic analogy modern Mother Nature Muses music of nature mystery religions mystical myth natural science Natural Selection nature writer neoplatonism pagan person personification of nature personified nature philosopher physical plants Plato poem poet poetry popular Pythagoras Pythagorean Renaissance Roman Saint sang scientific scientists seems sense singing song soul sound spheres spirit stars string theory things Thoreau Thorndike thought thread trope universe western Roman Empire wild women wrote Zeus