Theerman

Gebundenes Buch

Experiencing Nature

Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus

Herausgegeben: Theerman, P.; Parshall, Karen Hunger

Beschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 58
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-7923-4477-3
• 1997.
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780792344773
• ISBN-10: 0792344774
• Artikelnr.: 23088101