Download or read book Shaping Science with Rhetoric written by Leah Ceccarelli and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In considering how scientists persuade colleagues to cross the disciplinary divide, this text examines three scientific monographs in their historical contexts: Dodzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937); Schrodinger's What is Life? (1944); and Wilson's Consilience (1998).