Description: Using Darwin's The Origin of Species as a casepoint, this book shows that the language of scientists does remain language and that a skilful use of its rhetorical and poetic aspects often determines the 'facts' and the transmission of information.
Review Quotes: "This book greatly enhances our understanding of the central role of Spencer Baird and the Smithsonian in ninetheenth-century science and provides the basis for further research."
Daniel Goldstein, ISIS, 1994.
"...Bulhof has prepared a philosophical ground rich enough to yield real fruit."
Robert J. Richards, ISIS, 1994.