Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. DebusP. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall Springer Science & Business Media, 1997 M04 30 - 312 páginas 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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The Body Politic before and after the scientific revolution | 1 |
The Hebrew Tradition and the Mathematical Study of Nature | 43 |
The Theological Foundations of Darwins Theory of Evolution | 61 |
Chemistry through Invariant Theory? James Joseph Sylvesters Mathematization of the Atomic Theory | 81 |
The Restoration of Order in Early Modern France | 113 |
Tarantism in Early Modern Europe | 163 |
Nature and Culture in the Discourses of the Virtuosi of France | 193 |
A Case Study in Antebellum American Interest in Science Technology and Nature | 211 |
A Personal and Intellectual Journey | 237 |
Select Bibliography | 281 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 299 |
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