Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9401064547 ISBN 13 : 9789401064545

Editeur : Springer, 2012

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9401064547
• ISBN 13: 9789401064545
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Éditeur: Theerman P., Parshall Karen Hunger
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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