Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus (1997) (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science #58)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
1997

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ISBN-13:
9789401158107
Related ISBNs:
9780792344773
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
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Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Science, Social Studies, Medicine, Philosophy
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Edited by:
P. Theerman
Edited by:
Karen Hunger Parshall

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