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Nature 448, 751-752 (16 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448751a; Published online 15 August 2007
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The art of persuasion
Steven Shapin1
Abstract
Surprisingly, the rhetoric of the literary artist still has a place in persuasive scientific texts.
BOOK REVIEWED-The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour
edited by Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross
University of Chicago Press: 2007. 312 pp. $29.00 (pbk); $72.50 (hbk)
While the term 'scientific literature' is a commonplace usage, few scientists would acknowledge any connection between how they write and the works of novelists or poets. As long ago as the middle of the seventeenth century, the English originators of the scientific journal vigorously set themselves against all forms of fancy writing.
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