Aligning Observations in Edward Tyson's 'Lumbricus Latus' (1683)(<Special Issue>Science and Visual Images in History)

• KUSUKAWA Sachiko

  Trinity College, Cambridge

抄録

It is well known that a variety of rhetorical strategies was deployed by members of the early Royal Society in order to promote a new form of knowledge based on "matters of fact" and empirical knowledge. This paper argues that Edward Tyson's study of the lumbricus latus (tapeworm) deployed many of these strategies in order to render credible his discovery of the hooked head and "mouths" of the tapeworm. In particular, references to images in Tyson's argument highlight how Tyson sought to align observations of earlier authors with his own. An examination of his drawings and editorial comments further indicate the extent which Tyson shaped his own visual argument.

収録刊行物

• Historia scientiarum. Second series

  Historia scientiarum. Second series 23 (3), 167-190, 2014-03-31

  日本科学史学会

キーワード

• Royal Society
• Philosophical Transactions
• drawings
• Edward Tyson

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• CRID: 1571980077822494208
• NII論文ID: 110009810305
• NII書誌ID: AA11081495
• ISSN: 02854821
• 本文言語コード: en
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