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Download full textZappen, James P. – 1978
Decisive changes in the history of rhetoric occurred with the publication of Francis Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" and "De augmentis scientiarum" and "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes. Bacon and Hobbes responded to the problem of eloquence common to scientists in the early seventeenth century, which centered on three…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Intellectual History, Natural Sciences, Persuasive Discourse
