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polychrome |
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Experiencing Nature in Intellectual Contexts -- The Body Politic before and after the Scientific Revolution -- The Geometrical Kabbalahs of John Dee and Johannes Kepler: The Hebrew Tradition and the Mathematical Study of Nature -- The Theological Foundations of Darwin's Theory of Evolution -- Chemistry through Invariant Theory? James Joseph Sylvester's Mathematization of the Atomic Theory -- Experiencing Nature in Social Contexts -- Religion, Science, and the Public Imagination: The Restoration of Order in Early Modern France -- Dancing with Spiders: Tarantism in Early Modern Europe -- Nature and Culture in the Discourses of the Virtuosi of France -- Dionysius Lardner's American Tour: A Case Study in Antebellum American Interest in Science, Technology, and Nature -- Establishing an Historiographical Tradition -- From the Sciences to History: A Personal and Intellectual Journey -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors. |
| Summary |
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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Debus, Allen G.
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Debus, Allen G. |
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Historiography -- France -- Congresses.
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Historiography. |
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France. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| ISBN |
9789401064545 |
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9401064547 |
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9789401158107 (e-book) |
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940115810X |
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9780792344773 |
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