Experiencing Nature (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)

Experiencing Nature (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)

Experiencing Nature (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)

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Book Description
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.

Experiencing Nature (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science),P. Theerman,Karen Hunger Parshall,Springer,0792344774,17th century,18th century,Chemistry - General,Congresses,England,France,General,History,History & Theory - General,Philosophy,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Science,Science (General),Debus, Allen G,Political Science / History & Theory

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