Romanticism in science : science in Europe, 1790-1840 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Poggi, Stefano, Bossi, Maurizio
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1994]
Series:Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 152.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Wechselwirkung in the life and other sciences : a word, new claims and a concept around 1800 ... and much later / Gerhard H. Müller
  • Geometry and "metaphysics of space" in Gauss and Riemann / Umberto Bottazzini
  • Romanticism versus Enlightenment : Sir Humphry Davy's idea of chemical philosophy / Ferdinando Abbri
  • Lamarck and the birth of biology 1740-1810 / Giulio Barsanti
  • On the origin of romantic biology and its further development at the University of Jena between 1790 and 1850 / Ilse Jahn
  • "Nature is an organized whole" : J. F. Fries's reformulation of Kant's philosophy of organism / Frederick Gregory
  • The anthropological theory of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach / Stefano Fabri Bertoletti
  • Soemmerring, Kant and the organ of the soul / Luigi Marino
  • Neurology and biology in the Romantic Age in Germany : Carus, Burdach, Gall, von Baer / Stefano Poggi.
  • From romantic Naturphilosophie to a theory of scientific method for the medical disciplines / William R. Woodward and Reinhardt Pester
  • Romanticism and Dutch scientists / H. A. M. Snelders
  • The unity of teaching and research / Rudolf Stichweh
  • Linguistics and modern philology in Germany 1800-1840 as 'scientific' subjects and as university disciplines / Hans Helmut Christmann
  • The unity of nature and mind : Gustav Theodor Fechner's non-reductive materialism / Michael Heidelberger.