Author
Rankin; Tess C.
Year
2024
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Language
English
Pages
45
ISBN
978-1-83764-501-5
Last Update
13-Jun-2025
Keywords
Language & Literature ; Feminist & Women's Studies ; Gender Studies
These passages from German empiricist philosopher Hans Reichenbach’s 1930 book (Spanish translation 1931, English translation 1932) exemplify the vivid language used by science writers as they introduced paradigm-shifting ideas to nonspecialist audiences. Reichenbach connects invisibly small structures to a striking natural scene: alongside a delicately trembling branch of berries, the structures and forms that support and define daily life suddenly lose their form. This radical reimagining of everything from lakes to bridges may produce confusion and uncertainty, but for the many writers who attempted, in the first half of the twentieth century, to convey the immediacy and importance of the...
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