Scientific Rhetoric in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Herbert Spencer, Thomas H. Huxley, and John Dewey
http://wac.colostate.edu/books/textual_dynamics/chapter6.pdf
  peer-reviewed

Zappen, James P.
WAC Clearinghouse
1991

Abstract:

Explains how rhetoric is related to modes of inquiry and to the social community in classical rhetoric and in scientific rhetoric in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.