CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. CONTRIBUTORS ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. 1. Language as a Tool in the Sciences 1
6. 2. The Linguistic Creation of Man: Charles Darwin, August Schleicher, Ernst Haeckel, and the Missing Link in Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory 21
7. 3. Is the Notion of Language Transferable to the Genes? 49
8. 4. Language in Action: Genes and the Metaphor of Reading 76
9. 5. The Decline and Fall of Astrology as a Symbolic Language System 89
10. 6. Modernity and Instruments Made to Speak a Language That Any Could Understand: The Case of Reaumur's Comparable Thermometers 111
11. 7. Language in Computing 125
12. Notes 165
13. Index 203
14. Writing Science 209