Experiencing Nature : Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus /
This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
1997.
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| Series: | University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and inexorable logic of discovery. A wide variety of extra-scientific factors, deriving from changing intellectual contexts and differing social millieus, play crucial roles in the overall development of scientific thought. These essays represent case studies in a broad range of scientific settings - from sixteenth-century astronomy and medicine, through nineteenth-century biology and mathematics, to the social sciences in the twentieth-century - that show the impact of both social settings and the cross-fertilization of ideas on the formation of science. Aimed at a general audience interested in the history of science, this book closes with Debus's personal perspective on the development of the field. Audience: This book will appeal especially to historians of science, of chemistry, and of medicine. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401158107 (electronic bk.) 940115810X (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1566-659X ; |