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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... physics . After his time , he said , there would be no new discoveries in physics , only engineering . He was an engineer and inventor , and the perfector of the transatlantic telegraph cable . Kelvin realized that Hutton's great earth ...
... physics . After his time , he said , there would be no new discoveries in physics , only engineering . He was an engineer and inventor , and the perfector of the transatlantic telegraph cable . Kelvin realized that Hutton's great earth ...
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... physics , but his followers were generally uncomfortable when mathematics and physics and chemistry were applied to rocks . All but a few were unsure how to answer Kelvin . They " preferred the conclusions drawn from the evidence of ...
... physics , but his followers were generally uncomfortable when mathematics and physics and chemistry were applied to rocks . All but a few were unsure how to answer Kelvin . They " preferred the conclusions drawn from the evidence of ...
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... Physics had not been completed : nuclear physics revealed a vast intellectual puzzle which is still largely unknown to physicists , and nuclear physics shows that the geologists were closer to correct than Kelvin's computations . Most ...
... Physics had not been completed : nuclear physics revealed a vast intellectual puzzle which is still largely unknown to physicists , and nuclear physics shows that the geologists were closer to correct than Kelvin's computations . Most ...
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