Rhetoric and natural history
Subtitle: Buffon in polemical and literary context
By: Jeff Loveland.
Contributors: Voltaire Foundation.
Series: SVEC,; 2001:03
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Natural history literature.; Rhetoric.; Literature and science.
Description: "This book examines the rhetorical dimension of six contested issues of eighteenth-century natural history ... style, final causes, the chain of being, systems, mathematics, and nominalism" -- Intro.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-206) and index.