The History of Metaphors of Nature: Science and Literature from Homer to Al Gore, Volume 2Edwin Mellen Press, 2006 - 925 pagine 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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... ancient Greece , are mostly bare rock and thin remnant subsoils because the ancient cultures cared so little about preserving the trees and animals and soils for the future . The only good farmland is in the valleys . Classical Greek ...
... ancient Greece , are mostly bare rock and thin remnant subsoils because the ancient cultures cared so little about preserving the trees and animals and soils for the future . The only good farmland is in the valleys . Classical Greek ...
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... ancient Roman feelings about the earth as soil and as a place are captured in their language . Italic - speakers had the word solum which always meant soil and never meant planet . The Latin word terra is derived from the ancient Latin ...
... ancient Roman feelings about the earth as soil and as a place are captured in their language . Italic - speakers had the word solum which always meant soil and never meant planet . The Latin word terra is derived from the ancient Latin ...
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... ancient Olympian version of the image . In fact , Copernicus said that his main motivation was to correct the disorderliness of the Polemaic theory . Thus the feeling in the original words can go on , even when the words change . There ...
... ancient Olympian version of the image . In fact , Copernicus said that his main motivation was to correct the disorderliness of the Polemaic theory . Thus the feeling in the original words can go on , even when the words change . There ...
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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