From Agreements to Images The Rhetorical Foundations of X-Ray Crystallography

This chapter summarizes the state of scientific knowledge in 1912 for three sets of concepts: X-rays, crystal structure, and optics. This description provides important background for understanding the arguments that established X-ray diffraction crystallography as a viable practice, and it demonstr...

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Published inAssembling Arguments p. 43
Main Author Jonathan Buehl
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of South Carolina Press 20.01.2016
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Summary:This chapter summarizes the state of scientific knowledge in 1912 for three sets of concepts: X-rays, crystal structure, and optics. This description provides important background for understanding the arguments that established X-ray diffraction crystallography as a viable practice, and it demonstrates how concepts of rhetorical agreement apply across multiple modalities. InThe New RhetoricPerelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca explain that all arguments are based on common premises or starting places, which they call the objects of agreement. These agreements include facts, truths, presumptions, values, hierarchies, and loci. Although Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca developed their rhetoric with verbal argumentation in mind, these terms
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