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.
Audience: This book will appeal especially to historians of science, of chemistry, and of medicine.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780792344773
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-7923-4477-3
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.04.1997
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1997
- Serie: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 1420 g
- Seiten: 312
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 23 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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