Title: Rhetoric and natural history
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Literature and science, Natural history literature, Rhetoric, Buffon, georges louis leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788
People: Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon comte de (1707-1788)