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EXPERIENCING NATURE
PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF ALLEN G. DEBUS |
| By: |
Paul Harold Theerman (Editor), Karen Hunger Parshall (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£99.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9401064547 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789401064545 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
13 October, 2012 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997 |
| Series: |
The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 58 |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus |
| 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. |
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biography |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
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