proceedings of a conference in honor of Allen G. Debus
Edición de la obra Experiencing nature
| Autor | Allen G. Debus, Karen Hunger Parshall |
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| Editorial | Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Fecha de publicación | 1997 |
| Lugar | Boston |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 307 |
| ISBN-10 | 0792344774 |
| OCLC | 36260830, 318079434 |
| LCCN | 97003536 |
| Serie | The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ; · v. 58 |
| Número de Cutter | D289e |
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This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - 'experiences of nature' - from within an 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.