%0 Journal Article
%T El "Alfabeto" y la "Gram¨˘tica" de la Geolog¨Şa: Analog¨Şas y met¨˘foras en la estrategia persuasiva de Lyell
%A Blanco
%A Daniel
%J Enfoques
%D 2008
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X with the publication of principles of geology, lyell tried to improve on the reputation of geology by advocating a truce with religion and presenting uniformitarianism (term coined by whewell, one of lyell's most respected critics) as a heuristic strategy. after a brief conceptual clarification, this contribution discusses some cases, particularly analogies and metaphors, which illustrate the large group of rhetorical resources which lyell used to accomplish that ultimately-not instantly-most of his ideas become convincing to the ears of his scientific community peers.
%K darwin
%K geology
%K lyell
%K rhetorics
%K uniformitarianism.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1669-27212008000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en