Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 58, Band 58) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792344774 ISBN 13: 9780792344773

Verlag: Springer, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0792344774
• ISBN 13: 9780792344773
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 325
• Herausgeber: Theerman P., Parshall Karen Hunger
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