In:Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900
Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo
[Not in series 173] 2012
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 4 July 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.173.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.173.toc
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Acknowledgmentsv
Preface
1. Late Modern English in its historical context
2. Astronomy as scientific knowledge in Modern England
3. CETA as a tool for the study of modern astronomy in English
4. Astronomical discourse in 18th and 19th century texts: A new-born model in the transmission of science
5. Patterns of English scientific writing in the 18th century: Adjectives and other building-blocks
6. Accounting for observations of the heavens in the 18th century: New nouns to explain old phenomena
7. Subject specific vocabulary in astronomy texts: A diachronic survey of the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy
8. A corpus-driven analysis of complex predicates in 18th century scientific writings in CETA
9. The emergence and evolution of the pattern N + PREP + V-ing in historical scientific texts
10. An analysis of hedging in eighteenth century English astronomy texts
11. Thematic structure in eighteenth century astronomical texts: A study of a small sample of articles from the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy
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