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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... species of elephants , rhinoceri , and reindeer . Cuvier had shown that none of these were the same species as those of the genera alive today in the tropics and arctic . But he concluded that the older strata had been excavated and ...
... species of elephants , rhinoceri , and reindeer . Cuvier had shown that none of these were the same species as those of the genera alive today in the tropics and arctic . But he concluded that the older strata had been excavated and ...
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... species ; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species . At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides , and to overtop and kill the surrounding ...
... species ; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species . At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides , and to overtop and kill the surrounding ...
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... species giving rise first to two or three varieties , these being slowly converted into species , which in their turn produce by equally slow steps other species , and so on , like the branching of a great tree from a single stem , till ...
... species giving rise first to two or three varieties , these being slowly converted into species , which in their turn produce by equally slow steps other species , and so on , like the branching of a great tree from a single stem , till ...
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