Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 An interdisciplinary approach to medical writing in Early Modern English
- 2 Medical texts in 1500–1700 and the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts
- 3 Medical literacies and medical culture in early modern England
- 4 Verbs of knowing: discursive practices in early modern vernacular medicine
- 5 Defining in Early Modern English medical texts
- 6 Dissemination and appropriation of medical knowledge: humoral theory in Early Modern English medical writing and lay texts
- 7 Code-switching in Early Modern English medical writing
- 8 New arguments for new audiences: a corpus-based analysis of interpersonal strategies in Early Modern English medical recipes
- 9 Efficacy phrases in Early Modern English medical recipes
- 10 Medical pamphlets: controversy and advertising
- 11 The development of specialized discourse in the Philosophical Transactions
- 12 The expression of stance in early (1665–1712) publications of the Philosophical Transactions and other contemporary medical prose: innovations in a pioneering discourse
- Appendix A Raw data tables corresponding to Figures 4.3–4.14
- Appendix B Raw data tables corresponding to Figures 8.1–8.4
- Appendix C Stance markers used in the analysis in Chapter 12
- Appendix D Preliminary list of texts in the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT)
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - The development of specialized discourse in the Philosophical Transactions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 An interdisciplinary approach to medical writing in Early Modern English
- 2 Medical texts in 1500–1700 and the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts
- 3 Medical literacies and medical culture in early modern England
- 4 Verbs of knowing: discursive practices in early modern vernacular medicine
- 5 Defining in Early Modern English medical texts
- 6 Dissemination and appropriation of medical knowledge: humoral theory in Early Modern English medical writing and lay texts
- 7 Code-switching in Early Modern English medical writing
- 8 New arguments for new audiences: a corpus-based analysis of interpersonal strategies in Early Modern English medical recipes
- 9 Efficacy phrases in Early Modern English medical recipes
- 10 Medical pamphlets: controversy and advertising
- 11 The development of specialized discourse in the Philosophical Transactions
- 12 The expression of stance in early (1665–1712) publications of the Philosophical Transactions and other contemporary medical prose: innovations in a pioneering discourse
- Appendix A Raw data tables corresponding to Figures 4.3–4.14
- Appendix B Raw data tables corresponding to Figures 8.1–8.4
- Appendix C Stance markers used in the analysis in Chapter 12
- Appendix D Preliminary list of texts in the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
An important milestone in the history of English scientific and medical writing is the foundation of the Royal Society, ‘the institutional embodiment of the new science’ (M. Hunter 1981: 48), which took place in 1662, after a period in which its members had met in an informal manner (Hartley 1960). In their preliminary meeting on 28 November 1660, the founders of the Royal Society determined that the purpose of their gathering was ‘a designe of founding a Colledge for the promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning’ (quoted in Hall 1991: 9) and chose the phrase Nullius in verba (‘On the words of no one’) as their motto. These new researchers were convinced that many natural philosophers in the past had been anxious to provide explanations and theories before having enough evidence on which to base them and emphasized therefore the need for an experimental approach so as to collect abundant data from which correct generalizations could be derived.
On 6 March 1665, the first issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (henceforth PT) was published, evolving from the communal correspondence which was common among its members (Gotti 2006a). As the practice of exchanging information by means of correspondence through unofficial networks was proving more and more difficult to carry out, due to the increasing number of specialists and research groups working in the field, it was decided to create a new journal devoted to specialized matters and mainly addressed to those really interested in them, imitating the French scientific periodical Le Journal des Sçavants, which had appeared on 5 January 1665 under the editorship of Denis de Sallo de la Coudraye.
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