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- catalog abstract ""With the help of Locke's notebooks, letters, and journals, Peter Walmsley reconstructs Locke's scientific career, including his early work with the chemist Robert Boyle and the physician Thomas Sydenham. He demonstrates too how the Essay embodies in its form and language many of the preoccupations of the science of its day, from the emerging discourses of experimentation and empirical taxonomy to developments in embryology and the history of trades." "Widely researched, Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science constitutes an important new reading of Locke, one that shows both his brilliance as a writer and his originality in turning to science to effect a radical re-invention of the study of the mind."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12888770.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""With the help of Locke's notebooks, letters, and journals, Peter Walmsley reconstructs Locke's scientific career, including his early work with the chemist Robert Boyle and the physician Thomas Sydenham. He demonstrates too how the Essay embodies in its form and language many of the preoccupations of the science of its day, from the emerging discourses of experimentation and empirical taxonomy to developments in embryology and the history of trades." "Widely researched, Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science constitutes an important new reading of Locke, one that shows both his brilliance as a writer and his originality in turning to science to effect a radical re-invention of the study of the mind."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-191) and index.".
- catalog description "Writing a natural history of mind -- Embryology and the progress of the understanding -- Experimental essays -- Wit and hypothesis -- Dispute and conversation -- Civil and philosophic discourse.".
- catalog extent "199 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0838755437 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog subject "121 21".
- catalog subject "B1294 .W35 2003".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Locke, John, 1632-1704. Essay concerning human understanding.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Writing a natural history of mind -- Embryology and the progress of the understanding -- Experimental essays -- Wit and hypothesis -- Dispute and conversation -- Civil and philosophic discourse.".
- catalog title "Locke's Essay and the rhetoric of science / Peter Walmsley.".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".