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Experiencing Nature
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus
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Description
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.
Audience: This book will appeal especially to historians of science, of chemistry, and of medicine.
Spécifications
Parties prenantes
- Editeur:
Contenu
- Nombre de pages :
- 312
- Langue:
- Anglais
- Collection :
- Tome:
- n° 58
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9780792344773
- Date de parution :
- 30-04-97
- Format:
- Livre relié
- Format numérique:
- Genaaid
- Dimensions :
- 156 mm x 234 mm
- Poids :
- 639 g
